Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.