“In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.”

“They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb”

“Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.”

“Weirdness is beauty, beauty weirdness.”

“Make it bend — trees are flexible, so they don’t snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch — perfect trees don’t exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.”

“Her face is bent out of shape, but still recognizable. There are too many teeth in her mouth, now. It is torn open at the sides. Split along her cheeks, so the weird jagged stones of her teeth can breathe.”

“Leaves become most beautiful when they're about to die
When they're about to fall from trees
When they're about to dry”

“When a beautiful rose dies beauty does not die because it is not really in the rose. Beauty is an awareness in the mind. It is a mental and emotional response that we make. We respond to life as though it were perfect. When we go into a forest we do not see the fallen rotting trees. We are inspired by a multitude of uprising trees... The goal of life is happiness and to respond to life as though it were perfect is the way to happiness. It is also the way to positive art work.”

“Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way.”

“Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”