Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s5.148

c5.s5.148

(2) Regular growth—“Just as man experiences the stages of infancy, adolescence, youth and old age thereby demonstrating full consciousness, so also do trees.” “And just as the human system undergoes constant growth through the stages of infancy, adolescence, youth, etc., likewise a tree undergoes growth through stages of sprouting, seedling with new leaves, branching and so forth.” “वनस्पतिशरीरमरकिङ्कसलय-शाखाप्रशाखादिभिर्विशेषैः प्रतिनियतं वर्द्धते इति।”