Stem Dead Donors

Famous quotes containing the words stem and/or dead:

    “The melon is growing but its stem is shriveling.”
    —Russian popular saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)

    “There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)