A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.
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 tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
Like people, trees are all individuals.
If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.