Bonsai Quotes:

The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.

- John Naka

topic: Tree, Looks, Bonsai

The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you

- John Naka

topic: Tree, Bonsai

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

- Sloane Crosley

topic: Reality, Tree, Brain, Bonsai

To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted; only the soil-base you provided was inadequate. Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong with their seeds. Only society never gave them a base to grow on.

- Muhammad Yunus

topic: Flower, Perfect, People, Bonsai, Replica

Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

- Nadine Gordimer

source: Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.127, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Next, Sentiments, Bonsai

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

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sea, Two, Tree, Bonsai, Superstorm Sandy

Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

- Jonathan Messinger

topic: Awards, Years, Easy, Bonsai, Chileans