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)

    “Time kills me terribly.
    “Time shall not murder you,” He said,
    “Nor the green nought be hurt;
    Who could hack out your unsucked heart,
    O green and unborn and undead?”
    I saw time murder me.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “It’s a tree on a riverbank: how long can it survive?”
    —Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.