„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

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„People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.“
— Pablo Picasso
„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
„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
„Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?“
— Richard Bach