Sacred Tree

Famous quotes containing the words sacred and/or tree:

“I want the necessity of supplying my own wants. All this costly culture of yours is not necessary. Greatness does not need it. Yonder peasant, who sits neglected, carries a whole revolution of man and nature in his head, which shall be a sacred history to some future ages.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A tree the span of two arms starts from a tiny seedling.”
—Chinese proverb.

Lao-tzu.