Tree
The American Holly (Ilex opaca Aiton) was officially adopted May 1, 1939, regarded as one of Delaware's most important forest trees.
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Famous quotes containing the word tree:
“It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, “Know thyself,” and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“That sound, everywhere about us, of the sea—
the tree among its tresses has always heard it,
and the horse dips his black body in the sound
stretching his neck as if towards drinking water ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“A tree the span of two arms starts from a tiny seedling.”
—Chinese proverb.
Lao-tzu.