Man as a Tree Inverted

Quem Fructum Homo Producit O vilis humane condicionis indignitas, indigna vilitatis humane condicio ! Herbas et arbores investiga: ille de se producunt flores, frondes, et fructus, et tu de te lendes et pediculos et lumbricos. Ille de se fundunt oleum, vinum, et balsamum, tu de te sputum, urinam, et stercus. Ille de se spirant suavitatem odoris, et tu de te reddis abominacionem fetoris. Qualis est arbor, talis est fructus, "non enim potest arbor mala fructus bonos facere." Quid est enim homo secundum formam nisi quedam arbor eversa? Cuius radices sunt crines, truncus est capud cum collo, stipes est pectus cum alvo, rami sunt ulne cum tibiis, frondes sunt digiti cum articulis. Hoc est folium quod a vento rapitur et stipula que a sole siccatur.  Innocentius III, De miseria condicionis humane

What Fruit a Man Produces O vile baseness of the human condition, O shameful condition of human worthlessness. Study the herbs and trees: that one produces flowers, leaves and fruit, and you fleas, lice and worms. Another gives oil, wine and balm, you excrete spit, urine and excrement. Another breathes sweet odours, you produce an abominable fetor. Like the tree, so is the fruit: 'no bad tree is able to produce good fruit.' What is man in form but a tree inverted? The hairs of his head are the roots, the upper trunk is the head with the neck, the lower trunk is the chest with the belly, the branches are the arms and legs, the leaves are the fingers and toes. He is a leaf ripped away by the wind and a stalk which the sun burns dry. Pope Innocent III, The Misery of the Human Condition