Large Trees

Famous quotes containing the words large trees, large and/or trees:

“Nowadays almost all man’s improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I am blackly bored when they are at large & at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway & we are deprived of them.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)