On a branch
floating downriver
a cricket, singing.

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches.

Emma Thompson as Agent O, the head of the MIB US branch who operates out of New York

[...] only old branches can be broken. The young ones bend with the storm. Only the stupid ones resist.

Like the sweet apple reddening on the topmost branch,
the topmost apple on the tip of the branch,
and the pickers forgot it,
well, no, they didn't forget, they just couldn't reach it.

The Western nations have four arms-defensive and offensive-the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Church.

Splendid Things
Chinese brocade. A sword with a decorated scabbard. The grain of the wood in a Buddhist statue. Long flowering branches of beautifully coloured wistaria entwined about a pine tree. (p. 109)