Yoko Ono Quotes

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

Quality of life is not only about what you find in the shops; it's about the landscape.

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility and helps them, then that makes me happy. I want to be helpful.

I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

The natural world is a source of inspiration.

I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and marvel in beauty and nature.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden is probably the spot where the hopes for civilization are best captured. In fact, man defines himself by his garden. My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another; here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality.

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.