“I am planting a tree in this bomb crater to remind us that in the midst of death, there is life... and hope.”
“He who plants a tree, plants a hope.”
“At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants...”
“Hermione looked far and far and George was a midge and a leaf was the size of a house and an acorn-cup would shelter herself...for...I am a tree planted by the river of water...I am in the word tree. I am tree exactly.”
“All death reminds us that nothing is promised, only that life was worth it.”
“In the midst of life, we are in death.”