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By the way, I had googled "wisdom is like a tree" before asking you, and it didn't seem to turn up any existing quotations. It surprised me that no one had famously compared wisdom to a tree -- not in a positive sense, anyway.
It's a good analogy, and -- if you're into that kind of thing -- you can extend it even further: trees (can) yield fruit, the seed stays dormant if it's not in an environment that lets it grow, all the seeds take a similar path when expanding ...
That's only a negative sense if you're working with the assumption that the biblical God is a good guy, an assumption which (given the sheer volume of genocide He committed personally, though His direct subordinates, or demanded of His human followers) simply does not hold up to scrutiny for any widely-accepted modern standard of 'good.' I mean, look at Genesis 3:22 if nothing else.