World Trees

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or trees:

“Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.”
—St. Augustine (354–430)

“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise ... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)