“I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.”

“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)”

“… the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.”

“Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.”

“White as the blossoms which the almond tree,
Above its bald and leafless branches bears.”

“It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.”

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

“It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.”

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.”

“If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?”