Sacred Tree

Famous quotes containing the words sacred and/or tree:

“O native country, repossessed by thee!
For, rather than I’ll to the West return,
I’ll beg of thee first here to have mine urn.
Weak I am grown, and must in short time fall;
Give thou my sacred relics burial.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

“A pinecone does not fall far from the tree trunk.”
—Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)