“Not evil. Not any more evil than the colored trees are good.Evil and good reside in the heart, not in trees and water.”

“Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.”

“The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.”

“The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.”

“This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana.”

“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”