„And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?“

— Carl Sagan

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„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
„The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.“
— Flannery O’Connor
„If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?“
— Chuck Palahniuk