There are various levels above and below the human through which the individual soul may pass in the course of its reincarnations — the angelic, the … - Alan Watts

English the differences between things and actions are clearly, if not always logically, distinguished, but a great number of Chinese words do duty for both nouns and verbs–so that one who thinks in Chinese has little difficulty in seeing that objects are also events, that our world is a collection of processes rather than entities.

For all the qualities which we admire or loathe in the world around us are reflections from within — though from a within that is also a beyond, unconscious, vast, unknown. Our feelings about the crawling world of the wasps’ nest and the snake pit are feelings about hidden aspects of our own bodies and brains, and of all their potentialities for unfamiliar creeps and shivers, for unsightly diseases, and unimaginable pains.

By itself, a tree is meaningless, but it is the meaning of the word “tree.