WHAT IS HE QUOTING AND WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MESSAGE

Montag is quoting the Bible, and the importance of its message is that there is in fact a time for everything.

"To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes, all that. But what else. What else? Something, something . . . And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."

From the Bible: Ecclesiastes 3