The Texan (TV Series)

A Tree for Planting (1958)

Martin Garralaga: Ramirez

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Ramirez : Fruit trees, senor. I have waited a long time for them. They are peach trees from the mission in San Francisco. You like peach trees, senor?

  Bill Longley : I like peach trees. Don't water 'em too much.

• [discussing peach trees] 

  Ramirez : It is a wonderful tree. In the spring, it makes flowers and this is good for the eyes, and in the summer it makes fruit and this is good for the stomach.

  Bill Longley : And the winter, when it's stripped and bare/

  Ramirez : It tells us we must die so we can live again.