“Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.”

“When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.”

“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.”

“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”

“With cruell tusks a savage boar imploys,
Who all king Œneus' fertile fields destroys:
The stately trees tore from their fiber'd roots,
Silver'd with blossoms of delicious fruits.”

“The excellence of a thing is the end for which it was made; as of a star to give light, and of a plant to be fruitful.”

“Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits.”

“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”

“Beside the staff of life,
taken and fashioned from the heavy earth,
beside our marriage, work, and war
the free man, too, will live and grow towards the sun.
Not the ripe fruit alone —
blossom is lovely, too.
Does blossom only serve the fruit,
or does fruit only serve the blossom —
who knows?
But both are given to us.”

“I said to the almond tree: "Speak to me of God."
and the almond tree blossomed.”