„467. I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again “I know that that’s a tree”, pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell them: “This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.”“

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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„Is there some particular reason that you're here?"…"Not this again.""Not what again?" said Clary."Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.“
— Cassandra Clare
„I wonder if the snowthe trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.“
— Lewis Carroll
„I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive.“
— Jane Austen
„Because I do not hope to knowThe infirm glory of the positive hourBecause I do not thinkBecause I know I shall not knowThe one veritable transitory powerBecause I cannot drinkThere, where trees flower, and springs flow, for there is nothing again“
— T.S. Eliot
„I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.“
— Margaret Atwood