Tree Ring Width

Famous quotes containing the words tree, ring and/or width:

    “Like to the tree of Tantalus she fled,
    And seeming lavish, sav’de her maydenhead.
    Ne’re king more sought to keepe his diademe;
    Than Hero this inestimable gemme.”
    —Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)

    “Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful tone is silenced.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “Newly stumbling to and fro
    All they find, outside the fold,
    Is a wretched width of cold.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)