By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top. Saskya Pandita
A tree ascended there. Oh pure transendence! Oh Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear! And all things hushed. Yet even in that silence a new beginning, beckoning, change appeared. Rainer Maria Rilke
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. Walter Scott