“Permission to buy apricots and oranges from my own trees, the ones my great grandfather planted and i kept alive in drought and war”

“Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’ Which of us was right, boss?”

“Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.”

“There is one tree in Gainesville I call "Grandfather" because it looks like a giant Bonsai tree. Well, that and I actually thought it was my mother's father for the longest time.”

“My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better.”

“I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.”