“Compared with me, a tree is immortal.”
“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.”
“Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.”
“It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.”
“Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.”
“I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.”