A Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
American - Novelist
Born: February 21, 1962

Lik the tree falling in the forest," says Ira. "Huh?" "You know, the old question - if a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, does it really make a sound?" Howie considers this. "Is it a pine forest, or oak?" "What's the difference?" "Oak is a much denser wood; it's more likely to be heard by someone on the freeway next to the forest where no one is.

Neal Shusterman

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

George Berkeley

The old saying 'If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it - Does it still make a sound?' can be adapted to: 'If someone does something interesting on the Internet and nobody is around to talk about it - Did it still make an impact?'

Peter Sunde

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

Gary Larson

There's a lot of steps between there not being music and there being music. Composition is one part of that, but if no one performs it... It's like if a tree falls in the forest and no one's there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Chris Thile

The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think it happens to a lot of people who make music just on a computer by themselves, you don't see the bigger picture. You don't see the forest for the trees. You're looking at every tree so closely, and every tree looks so cool. But you're making a forest, man, you're not making a tree.

Eef Barzelay

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

Chen Shui-bian

If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?

Neil S. Plakcy

Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

Gautama Buddha

If a tree falls on your head in a forest and no one hears it, it still hurts.

Paul Reiser

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

Brad Warner

When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.

Jocelyn Murray

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?

Steven Wright

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?

Richard Ford

The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.

Pope Francis

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