Nakashima Quotes

#1. I like to surround myself with people that have dreams and that fight for them every day.

Emeraude Toubia

#2. I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.

Pamela Anderson

#3. When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth. Trees have a yearning to live again, perhaps to provide the beauty, strength and utility to serve man, even to become an object of great artistic worth.

George Nakashima

#4. It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

George Nakashima

#5. Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.

Sarah Louise Delany

#6. There is a price for all things, my son, for all men. I have merely to find his.

Conn Iggulden

#7. The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles from off the Earth.

Stanton T. Friedman

#8. I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I was going to, its history, and the countryside. I was acquiring a kind of English character if you like, Englishness about things and my attitudes.

Ibn Warraq

#9. Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.

George Nakashima

#10. After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.

George Nakashima

#11. A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

George Nakashima

#12. People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays ... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley].

Charles Darwin