Great Bonsai Quotes

[Smoke]

All thru history, great men..and women have developed quotes that are remembered for centuries. We are of sound mind and good stock, surly as a group we can come up with a list memorable bonsai quotes. I just made this one up in a PM to a guy wanting to buy my April fool maples for 5.00 bucks.

"Good material is just around the corner...if you find a fat wallet on the ground".

 

[fraser67]

"That's a nice front, but I prefer the backside"

 

[0soyoung]

I like this one a lot:

The tree contains all the requirements needed to make a beautiful bonsai, it just needs time and technique.
So the real question is, is there any hope of you getting them [it] there?

 

[sorce]

"The eco-friendly enthusiast always remembers, in Bonsai, releasing greenhouse gases is just stinking up the workplace."

Sorce

 

[leatherback]

Nice topiary, you should consider making a bonsai out of it!

 

[whfarro]

"How much do you want for this tree"....reply, "if you have to ask you can't afford it."

 

[lordy]

First you wire the branch. Then you bend it, but stop just before it snaps...

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

My least favorite:
"All these trees are cute, but I really like this bonsai."
-lady walking through a bonsai show, first pointing to deciduous trees and azaleas, and then singling out a Phoenix graft juniper.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

My favorite:
"There are people who have done bonsai for thirty years, and people who have done bonsai for one year, thirty times over."
-Peter Warren

 

[Dav4]

"But isn't bonsai a form of torturing plants?"

 

[Smoke]

My favorite:
"There are people who have done bonsai for thirty years, and people who have done bonsai for one year, thirty times over."
-Peter Warren

You guys are going to have to explain this one to me. I don't get it.

 

[MACH5]

One of my favorites that speaks volumes to me is by WP:

"I design trees not bonsai"

 

[berobinson82]

When Colin Lewis was holding an "Ugly Tree" critique and seminar.

"That is a very nice... pot."

 

[whfarro]

"The Bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you" ~ John Naka

 

[johng]

nice moss....

 

[Vance Wood]

You guys are going to have to explain this one to me. I don't get it.

It's a dig at people, some legends in their own minds, use to define those who have been doing bonsai for many years and have learned nothing. I have had that one pointed at me in the past.

 

[PaulH]

"Put it in the ground and let it grow."

 

[PaulH]

"Every bonsai deserves some deadwood" -Dan Robinson

 

[PaulH]

"Either make it a bonsai or kill it now" - George Yamasaki

 

[PaulH]

"Stop bending just before sound comes out" -Mas Imazumi