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“When I die, she said, I am coming back as a tree with deep roots and I'll wave my leaves to the children every…

— Brian Andreas

“And it came to me that these trees had been hardly smaller when I was yet unborn, and had stood as they stood now…

— Gene Wolfe

“The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.”

— Ishmael Beah

“Of course, I feared that the joy I felt, like certain trees, had taken root at the edge of a craggy cliff. They may…

— André Aciman

“And for a time the tree stood blighted, trying to raise its stumted arms, a creature clubbed mute, only its sudden voicelessness making us…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“When the roots are deep, there is no reason to fear the wind.”

— Spiritual Trickster

“Like the trees, his roots went deep, and I daydreamed that if he wrapped me in his arms, he could safely tuck me away…

— Colleen Houck

“That is why nothing appears, all is silent, one is frightened to be born, no, one wishes one were, so as to begin to…

— Samuel Beckett

“I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while…

— Osamu Dazai

“The one who did not understood that his time’s root supports his life tree was born in vain.”

— Sorin Cerin

“I told the tree it was going nowhere in life. It was hurtful, but true. Now, maybe in death it will go somewhere, as…

— Jarod Kintz

“Basked in the sun, listened to birds, licked off raindrops, and only in flight the leaf saw the tree and grasped what it had…

— Vera Pavlova