The tree is one of the most magnificent shapes we can ever look upon. That shape is actually a slow-motion explosion. Trees inhabit a different time scale to ourselves – their time is measured in decades or even centuries. So we don’t see their explosiveness.
Trees are not just things that whirl past us as we drive down the highway: their shape is in all of our lives, indeed within our own bodies, and indeed our minds. It’s even in Scripture – I am the vine; you are the branches. #