Famous quotes containing the words tree and/or hill:
“Like to the tree of Tantalus she fled,
And seeming lavish, savde her maydenhead.
Nere king more sought to keepe his diademe;
Than Hero this inestimable gemme.”
—Christopher Marlowe (15641593)
“headland beyond stormy headland plunging like dolphins through the
gray sea-smoke
Into pale sea, look west at the hill of water: it is half the
planet: this dome, this half-globe, this bulging
Eyeball of water,”
—Robinson Jeffers (18871962)