Koji Nakanishi quotes

“The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed. After the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the ginkgo was the first tree that came up. It's amazing.”
-- Koji Nakanishi

#Tree Quotes #Eras Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment in 15 seconds; the same way with magic.”
-- Koji Nakanishi

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“I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist.”
-- Koji Nakanishi

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“This is an extraordinary illustrated collection of Chinese herbsaccompanied by concise and expert comments. Jing-Nuan Wu has succeeded incompiling this most unique and informative book.”
-- Koji Nakanishi

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“Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.”

“It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.”

“A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.”

“I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.”

“We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ...”

“Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence,”

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.3, Da Capo Press

“I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.”

“That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 25, 2013