“Come to the sunset tree!
The day is past and gone;
The woodman’s axe lies free,
And the reaper’s work is done.”

“Woodman, spare that tree!
Touch not a single bough!
In youth it sheltered me,
And I 'll protect it now.”

“When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?”

“Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”

“There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.”

“When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.”

“Suddenly the day was gone,
night came out from under each tree and spread.”

“The fault of many of our artists and intellectuals lies in their original sin: they are not true revolutionaries. We can try to graft the elm tree so that it will bear pears, but at the same time we must plant pear trees. New generations will come that will be free of original sin.”

“Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe and saw
-- The Trees (1978)”

“The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.”