American Chestnut Trees

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or trees:

“The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)

“A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)