“A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree,Birds without trees can never feel free.”
“To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.”
“Never make it without the compass. In the trees, I'd lose all sense of perspective. Direction. Maybe life is like that.”
“A world without adjectives would still have the sun rising and setting, the flowers blooming, the trees bearing fruits, the birds singing, and the bees stinging.”
“We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.”
“To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.”