„Mr Raj had been purely Orientally and fancifully complimentary (‘So great a man, his lingam as long and thick as a tree, the father of whole villages’).“

— Anthony Burgess

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„Yet trees are not 'trees', until so named and seenand never were so named, till those had beenwho speech's involuted breath unfurled,faint echo and dim picture of the world“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
„When we all got back to camp, our General communicated by heliograph through a distant mountain top with Sir valley and lay it waste with fire and sword in vengeance. This accordingly we did, but with great precautions. We proceeded systematically, village by village, and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the great shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation. So long as the villages were in the plain, this was quite easy. The tribesmen sat on the mountains and sullen watched the destruction of their homes and means of livelihood. When however we had to attack the villas on the sides of the mountains they resisted fiercely, and we lost for every village two or three British officers and fifteen or twenty native soldiers. Whether it was worth it, I cannot tell. At any rate, at the end of a fortnight the valley was a desert, and honour was satisfied.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„time is a tree (this life one leaf)but love is the sky and i am for youjust so long and long enough“
— E.E. Cummings
„His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.“
— Patricia Briggs
„The apple… came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.“
— Jodi Picoult
„You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.“
— Chinua Achebe
„Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees“
— Paulo Coelho