World Trees

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or trees:

“The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.”
—Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793)

“Below me trees unnumbered rise,
Beautiful in various dyes:
The gloomy pine, the poplar blue,
The yellow beech, the sable yew,
The slender fir that taper grows,
The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.”
—John Dyer (1699–1758)