Flaming Green Tree

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

“Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought!”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

“The first green night of their dreaming, asleep beneath the Tree,/God said, “Let meanings move,” and there was poetry.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

“No tree is so wedded to the water, and harmonizes so well with still streams.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)