Trees

About Trees

“It’s hard to see the forest when you’re a tree.”
— Paula Gunn Allen, Chapter Three
“When iron was found, the trees began to tremble, but the iron reassured them: 'Let no handle made from you enter into anything made from me, and I shall be powerless to injure you.'”
— 5, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 61
“Buddha just sat under a tree and let the whole world come to him”
— Meditation for September 22, The Day of Restless Drive, in the book The Secret Language of Birthdays by and Joost Elffers
“The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.”
— Genesis 1:12.
“Expectation postponed makes the heart sick, but a desire realized is a tree of life.”
— Proverbs 13:12, NWT
“We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.”
— Psalms. CXXXVII. 2.

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