Famous quotes containing the words tree and/or fall:
“A tree swayed overwater.
A voice said:
Stay. Stay by the slip-ooze. Stay.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.”
—Toni Morrison (b. 1931)