And those disappearances into the mist and cloud, those sudden emergences of some strange indefinite form, a weathered rock, for example, and ancient pine tree twisted by years of struggle with the wind, these too, are transporting.
-Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.
- Christian Louboutin
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
- Alexander Pope