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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing.
By the fruits which it bears is the tree known.
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
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.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself.
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree's fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down - bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.