“The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.” LongKnowingTreeInternetProjectsSpeciesOngoingSavanna Author:William Gibson
“what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.” FearSoundAnimalHalfKnowingSeeingTreeWoodsNot KnowingDuskSirensStumps Author:Edna O'Brien
“It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree” WorldMadeDifferentRealKnowingTreeHearingKnowing Something Author:Guy Gavriel Kay
“One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.” WantHumansWellsChildrenDoneFactsDiesHouseKnowingTreeDyingExpectationsPlantSpeciesDamnHuman SpeciesPlant A Tree Author:Christopher Hitchens
“The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.” KnowingTreeGrewDearIllTree Of Knowledge Author:John Milton