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)

“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

“If the tree is straight it need not fear casting a crooked shadow.”
—Chinese proverb.