Mast Trees

Famous quotes containing the words mast and/or trees:

    Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)