Famous quotes containing the words tree and/or hill:
“On a tree by a river a little tom-tit Sang “Willow, titwillow, titwillow!”
And I said to him, “Dicky-bird, why do you sit Singing, “Willow, titwillow, titwillow!””
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“Who knows but this hill may one day be a Helvellyn, or even a Parnassus, and the Muses haunt here, and other Homers frequent the neighboring plains?... It was a place where gods might wander, so solemn and solitary, and removed from all contagion with the plain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)