“If you love me, be patient. Look at the trees. Are they in a hurry to ripen their fruit?”

“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”

“You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.”

“All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

“A life without love is like a tree without fruit.”

“He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.”
Stultus est qui fructus magnarum arborum spectat, altitudinem non metitur.

“No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”

“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”

“Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a tree. You've got to love your body, Eve. You've got to love your tree. Love your tree. (Leah)”