Sacred Tree

Famous quotes containing the words sacred and/or tree:

    As for the sacred Scriptures, or Bibles of mankind, who in this town can tell me even their titles? Most men do not know that any nation but the Hebrews have had a scripture.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    That sound, everywhere about us, of the sea—
    the tree among its tresses has always heard it,
    and the horse dips his black body in the sound
    stretching his neck as if towards drinking water ...
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)