Oak Trees

Famous quotes containing the words oak and/or trees:

    When the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

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