Famous quotes containing the words tree and/or length:
“A tree may grow a thousand feet tall, but its leaves will return to its roots.”
—Chinese proverb.
“They raise their minds by brooding over and embellishing their sufferings, from one degree of fervid exaltation and dreary greatness to another, till at length they run amuck entirely, and whoever meets them would do well to run them thro’ the body.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)