Flaming Green Tree

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

    “Between extremities
    Man runs his course;
    A brand, or flaming breath,
    Comes to destroy
    All those antinomies
    Of day and night....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me, their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstasy, they were such strange and wonderful things.”
    —Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)

    “What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)