„As a tree that is not pliable breaks in the storm, so a man who has specialized breaks down in moments of crisis.“

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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„You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
„Directly the mulberry tree begins to make you circle, break off. Pelt the tree with laughter.“
— Virginia Woolf
„Storms make trees take deeper roots.“
— Dolly Parton
„The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.“
— Flannery O’Connor
„So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.“
— Bob Marley
„All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.“
— Margaret Atwood
„Only when the last tree has been cut down and the last river has dried up will man realize that reciting red Indian proverbs makes you sound like a fucking Muppet.“
— Banksy