Tree Names

Famous quotes containing the words tree and/or names:

“It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, “Know thyself,” and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“At present our only true names are nicknames.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)