“A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.”

— Confucius

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Confucius 269

Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551–-479 BC

R.S. Thomas (1913–2000) Welsh poet

"Here"
Tares (1961)

“Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.”

Willard van Orman Quine (1908–2000) American philosopher and logician

Philosophy of Logic (1970)
1970s

“When I gathered flowers
For my girl
From the top of the plum tree
The lower branches
Drenched me with dew.”

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662–710) Japanese poet

XXII, p. 24
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (1976)

“I shall be like that tree; I shall die from the top.”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

Predicting that he would go senile, as quoted in The Highway of Letters and its Echos of Famous Footsteps (1893) by Thomas Archer, p. 380

“Nature is bottom up. It's compelling and complex, and it fills me with joy and it's inconsistent with the top down view.”

Bill Nye (1955) American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer

[NewsBank, 3, Sarah Whitman, Age-old feud: In the beginning, Tampa Bay Times, Florida, February 7, 2014]

“The lion does not care about a monkey laughing at him from a tree.”

Saddam Hussein (1937–2006) Iraqi politician and President

Saddam Hussein, Defiant Dictator Who Ruled Iraq With Violence and Fear, Dies http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/world/middleeast/30saddam.html (The New York Times, 30 December 2006, page A10)
In response to guffaws from a spectator in an overhead gallery during his trial, 2006.