5+ George Nakashima Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best George Nakashima quotes and sayings.

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature. — George Nakashima

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

It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value — George Nakashima

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

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