White apple blossoms had begun to appear in the old tree, and I read the pale light in the sky as the shy illumination of a world to which I had yet to be introduced.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield

Some people still swear they can read the English word "sex" in the fronds of the Coco-de-Mer palm tree that adorns the ten-rupee note issued by the island nation of the Seychelles.

FORBES: Living People On Legal Tender

For your health and pocketbook, read The End of Medicine--more fruit from Schumpeter's tree.

FORBES: Schumpeter on Speed