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Most of the tree of life is effectively arranged.

Ever since Darwin, we've been familiar with the stupendous timespans of the evolutionary past. But most people still somehow think we humans are necessarily the culmination of the evolutionary tree. No astronomer could believe this.

The tree has been always an allegory for spiritual growth.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever.

Behind every tree there's a new monster.

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.