# Quote — Patrick White, The Tree of Man

> Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one.

- Author: [Patrick White](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-white.md)
- Book: [The Tree of Man](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-white/the-tree-of-man.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Patrick_White#The_Tree_of_Man_(1955)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-white/the-tree-of-man/conversation-is-imperative

## More from this book

> Loonies speak their own language, like educated people.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-white/the-tree-of-man/loonies-speak-their.md)