Pine Tree

Famous quotes containing the words pine tree, pine and/or tree:

    “Think how stood the white pine tree on the shore of the Chesuncook, its branches soughing with the four winds, and every individual needle trembling in the sunlight,—think how it stands with it now,—sold, perchance, to the New England Friction-Match Company!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree seems to wait, and neither with impatience:Mthey give no thought to the little people below them whose impatience and curiosity eat them up alive.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “As a tree my sin stands
    To darken all lands;
    Death is the fruit it bore.”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)