从约书亚树（Joshua Tree）开始是一个很小的树苗，它就被鞭打的风击败了，以至于没有试图向天空生长，它朝着风推动的方向而发展。它现在存在于永久性的风吹状态，倾斜到目前为止，它似乎已经准备好推翻，尽管实际上，它的根源将其牢固地固定在适当的位置。 pg。 35
(From the time the Joshua tree was a tiny sapling, it had been so beaten down by the whipping wind that, rather than trying to grow skyward, it had grown in the direction that the wind pushed it. It existed now in a permanent state of windblowness, leaning over so far that it seemed ready to topple, although, in fact, its roots held it firmly in place. pg. 35)