“The nature of people demands that most of them be engaged in the most frivolous possible activities – like making money.” — Marshall McLuhan

This work explores the nature of serendipity in the leaves of a money tree that, we believe, bestows largesse on all we survey.

All money is a matter of belief.

— Adam Smith

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

“Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”

― Roman Payne

All our wisdom is stored in the trees.

― Santosh Kalwar

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

— Martin Luther

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

— D. H. Lawrence

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

— Lucretius

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

— Hermann Hesse

The gods only laugh when people ask them for money.

— Japanese proverb

God gave me my money.

— John D. Rockefeller

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. 

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep.

— David Bailey

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

— John Greenleaf Whittier