Spreading Chestnut Tree

Famous quotes containing the words spreading chestnut, spreading and/or tree:

“Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)

“... less and less of luck, and more and more
Of failure spreading back up the arm
Earlier and earlier ...”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)