When you see a palm tree, the palm tree has seen you.

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• Do not speak of a rhinoceros if there is no tree nearby.
  African(Zulu)...
• How beautiful, how entrancing you are, my loved one,
  daughter of delights! You are stately as a palm-tree...
• Mister Roberts Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard.
  -Jack...
• The partridge loves peas, but not those that go into the pot with it.
  African(Wolof)...
• When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
  African...
• When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
  African...
• The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
  Old Testament -- Psalm xcii,...
• Only when a tree has fallen can you take measure of it.
  It is the same with a man...
• I must say, when the doorman where I live puts up the Christmas tree in the lobby,
  he has the same friendly smile for those who have remembered...