Tree Worship
The Celts believed that trees had spirits and worshipped certain trees. Often it was considered that fairy-like animistic beings lived in them. The three most sacred trees to the Celts were the oak, the ash and the thorn.
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Famous quotes containing the words tree and/or worship:
“The Anglo-American can indeed cut down, and grub up all this waving forest, and make a stump speech, and vote for Buchanan on its ruins, but he cannot converse with the spirit of the tree he fells, he cannot read the poetry and mythology which retire as he advances. He ignorantly erases mythological tablets in order to print his handbills and town-meeting warrants on them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“God keep your worship! I wish your worship well; God restore you to health! I humbly give you leave to depart; and if a merry meeting may be wished, God prohibit it!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)