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)

    “They call, even if I’m pinned behind bars.
    They call, they call their green death call.
    They want me. They need me.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Even when seen from near, the olive shows
    A hue of far away. Perhaps for this
    The dove brought olive back, a tree which grows
    Unearthly pale, which ever dims and dries,
    And whose great thirst, exceeding all excess,
    Teaches the South it is not paradise.”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)