"What is man, that you are mindful of him?", mused the psalmist.
Biology textbook writers Peter Raven and George Johnson offer the philosophical observation that we are just a bunch of fortuitous Twiggies, that humanity is "a tiny, largely fortuitous, and late-arising twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life".
The enormously arborescent bush of life caught my eye. I think they intended to convey the idea that the "bush of life" is enormous, but they ended up saying that the bush of life is enormously tree-like. Perhaps their syntax needs to evolve.
Source: http://www.icr.org/article/3513/
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