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First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.