The beginning of the branch will always have the central line of its thickness taking its direction by the central line of the plant.

Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body.

All the branches of trees at every stage of their height, united to-gether, are equal to the thickness of their trunk.

The cicatrices of trees grow in thickness more than the sap that flows through them and nourishes them requires.

This ramification of the elm has the largest branch in front, and its smallest are the first and the penultimate when the chief branch is straight.

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.