Island Trees

Famous quotes containing the words island and/or trees:

“In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The trees persist, yeasty and sensuous,
as thick as saints.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)