Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd: I am always about in the Quad. And that's why the tree Will continue to be Since observed by Yours faithfully,God. See Knox 476:22.

-Anonymous
c.1924  Reply to Ronald Knox's limerick. The limericks summarize Bishop George Berkeley's philosophy that everything is dependent at all times on the will of God.

There was once a man who said 'God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there's no-one about in the Quad.' SeeAnonymous 22:51.

-Knox, Ronald Arbuthnot
Attributed. Quoted in Langford Reed Complete Limerick Book (1924). The limericks summarise Bishop George Berkeley's philosophy that everything is dependent at all times on the will of God.