Flaming Green Tree

Famous quotes containing the words flaming, green and/or tree:

“they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands,
Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands,
Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)