“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”---- Khalil Gibran
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”---- Khalil Gibran
“If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”---- Khalil Gibran
Of our story faded away
and I was left with
the shadow of our memories
