Famous quotes containing the words tree and/or fall:
“The problems of the world, AIDS, cancer, nuclear war, pollution, are, finally, no more solvable than the problem of a tree which has borne fruit: the apples are overripe and they are fallingwhat can be done?... Nothing can be done, and nothing needs to be done. Something is being donethe organism is preparing to rest.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)
“Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)