(26) And all the ravines were deep ⌈⌈and narrow⌉⌉, (being formed) of hard rock, and trees were not planted upon them.

(8) but when the sun was up, because it had no depth of earth, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

(17) For there, out of the Earth, sprung up Grass and Herbs, and Trees, and there now also it stands written thus: Each according to its Kind. In these Words lie the Kernel of the eternal Birth or Geniture hidden or concealed, and cannot be comprehended or apprehended by or with Flesh and Blood, but the Holy Ghost through the animated or soulish Birth must kindle the astral Man, otherwise he is blind herein, and understands nothing but concerning Earth and Stones, also Grass, Herbs, and wooden Trees. [Gen. 1. 12.]

(23) Thus also the Earth brought forth no strange Life, but even that which had been in it from Eternity: And as before the Time of the Wrath it had brought forth heavenly Fruits, which had a holy, pure heavenly Body, and were the Food of Angels, so now it brought forth Fruits, according to its comprehensible, palpable, hard, evil, wrathful, poisonous, venomous, half-dead Kind; for as the Mother was, so were her Children.

(3) At that time they came up from the earth, like a tree which has grown up to the clouds and its root to the bottom; and their root passed on that way from one to the other, and they are arranged in mutual connection.

(24) And amongst them was a tree such as I had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were others like it: it had a fragrance beyond all fragrance, and its leaves and blooms and wood wither not for ever: and its fruit ⌈⌈is beautiful, and its fruit⌉⌉ resembles the dates of a palm.

(15) it was with me as with a young Tree, which is planted in the Ground, and at first is young and tender, and flourishing to the Eye, especially if it comes on lustily in its growing : But it does not bear Fruit presently; and though it blossoms, they fall off; also many a cold Wind, Frost and Snow, puff upon it, before it comes to any Growth and bearing of Fruit.

(1) On the nature of plants it says in revelation, that, before the coming of the destroyer, vegetation had no thorn and bark about it; and, afterwards, when the destroyer came, it became coated with bark and thorny, for antagonism mingled with every single thing; owing to that cause vegetation is also much mixed with poison, like Bis the height of hemp (kand), that is poisonous, for men when they eat it die.

(2) Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward. No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever.

(16) So also it went with this Spirit: The first Fire was but a Seed, and not a constant lasting Light: Since that Time many a cold Wind blew upon it; but the Will never extinguished. This Tree was also often tempted to try whether it would bear Fruit, and show itself with Blossoms; but the Blossoms were struck off till this very Time, wherein it stands in its first Fruit, in the Growth or Vegetation.

(48) No more could the Earth bring forth any Fruit, neither could there grow any Metals, as Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, or Stones, if the Stars did not work in them; neither could there grow any Grass, without the Operation of the Stars.

(1) On the nature of the tree they call Gôkard it says in revelation, that it was the first day when the tree they call Gôkard grew in the deep mud within the wide-formed ocean; and it is necessary as a producer of the renovation of the universe, for they prepare its immortality therefrom.

(5) That the disturbance which below is made By exhalations of the land and water, (Which far as may be follow after heat,) Might not upon mankind wage any war, This mount ascended tow'rds the heaven so high, And is exempt, from there where it is locked. Now since the universal atmosphere Turns in a circuit with the primal motion Unless the circle is broken on some side, Upon this height, that all is disengaged In living ether, doth this motion strike And make the forest sound, for it is dense; And so much power the stricken plant possesses That with its virtue it impregns the air, And this, revolving, scatters it around; And yonder earth, according as 'tis worthy In self or in its clime, conceives and bears Of divers qualities the divers trees; It should not seem a marvel then on earth, This being heard, whenever any plant Without seed manifest there taketh root. And thou must know, this holy table-land In which thou art is full of every seed, And fruit has in it never gathered there.