Mr. Kimura! Excuse me??

Subtitles are close, but what he actually said is much closer to "I don't know where this discovery came from, but it was like it suddenly came down from god."
Still a bit arrogant sounding.
 
He has probably been asked that question a thousand times, or more. Clearly the inspiration is the Japanese mountains.
I saw Kimura at a weekend bonsai event. He was asked to do two or three demonstrations and a workshop. The trees they gave him to work on were aweful, it was embarrassing to be there, and the audience were disappointed he didn't turn a pig's ear into a silk purse.
Cut the dude some slack, he's a bonsai legend that puts up with endless insults from wannabe's all the time.
 
63pmp said:
He has probably been asked that question a thousand times, or more. Clearly the inspiration is the Japanese mountains.
I saw Kimura at a weekend bonsai event. He was asked to do two or three demonstrations and a workshop. The trees they gave him to work on were aweful, it was embarrassing to be there, and the audience were disappointed he didn't turn a pig's ear into a silk purse.
Cut the dude some slack, he's a bonsai legend that puts up with endless insults from wannabe's all the time.
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The guy is a legend in my mind. He could certainly be more arrogant, if he wanted. Personally, I love Kimura's work. I think he's a trailblazer, and I appreciate that he bucks convention.

Actually, a number of his moutain/rock compositions are modeled after famous mountain formations in China. I looked at an article where one of his more recent compositions was modeled after Wulingyuan and Huang-shan. It's actually several plantings that make up a landscape. It isn't finished in this article, but it's close. http://uchikutei.officeblog.jp/archives/1072442359.html

I really hope to pay his nursury a visit one day. Maybe if I ask really nicely.
 
I am ribbing Bonsai_Nut for saying we aren't allowed to mention God here.
 
A. Gorilla said:
I am ribbing Bonsai_Nut for saying we aren't allowed to mention God here.
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That's not what I said. I said we can't have threads discussing religion, because people have a hard time not stomping on each others' beliefs.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, – and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air…

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew –
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

- John Gillespie Magee

(a personal favorite of mine... or another...)

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
 
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