Tree Names

Famous quotes containing the words tree and/or names:

“A tree there is that from its topmost bough
Is half all glittering flame and half all green
Abounding foliage moistened with the dew;
And half is half and yet is all the scene;
And half and half consume what they renew....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

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