Famous quotes containing the words ports and/or tree:
“When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)