Dead tree branches are taken from a dead ground and assembled in a new spot as soon as the seasons change. They are hung round the neck and the trunk facing inwards, and at the base of the tree fixed in a circle. Thus they resemble the roots of a mighty tree, which, growing on its own weight, spreads its roots over all the land.

Semper idem (always the same). Parum mutata (little has changed).

-Observations on Certain Verbal Forms of Proverbs, London, 1821