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Quotes About Bonsai

I've always enjoyed a challenge," Niko remarked, shifting through the powder to lift something out. "I think perhaps there are other things I could enjoy instead. Bonsai trees, painting, forging my own weapons. The opportunities are endless." He opened his hand to show me the small braid of several yellowed hairs. "Voodoo." "Think it would work?" I perked up. Killing from a distance wasn't usually my thing, but in this case, I'd make an exception.
~ Rob Thurman
The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.
~ John Naka
The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.
~ Robert Fortune
The bonsai grower knows that if she can give life to a product that lives forever and perpetually adds value to the lives of others, she has not only a success but a legacy.
~ Steven Berglas
Sitting there most of the night, she said, I had a crazy kind of image. Do you think two sick twisted 'trees ever made bonsai out of one another?
~ Theodore Sturgeon
I'm just trying to help Do your uncle's bonsai eat meat? I don't think so Have you ever been bitten by one of his bonsai? No. In that case, your uncle's bonsai are not helping us
~ Yann Martel
I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.
~ Chris Pratt
Bonsai is a way of life, and the joy derived from it should always be for today, and for anyone at any age, whether already involved with it or whether considering the prospect. Planting the seed of a tree in a pot or contemplating the majesty of a mature Bonsai is immaterial; both evoke a sense of joy at any given moment in time. That moment, when it is experienced, will be in the present, and that is, today!
~ Unknown
Consider bonsai There but for constricting bowl Would be a giant.
~ Unknown