If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.