Apple Trees

Famous quotes containing the words apple trees, apple and/or trees:

    One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
    Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
    About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
    The night above the dingle starry,
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upwards towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)