Tree

Tree

In botany, a tree is a perennial woody plant with a single main trunk taller than about 2 metres, with xylem tissue in the trunk and branches that continues to enlarge during the life of the plant by the process of secondary growth.

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Famous quotes containing the word tree:

    “You are wind in a stark tree,
    you are the stark tree unbent,
    you are a strung bow,
    you are an arrow.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “Strong to break dead things,
    the young tree, drained of sap,
    the old tree, ready to drop,
    to lift from the rotting bed
    of leaves, the old
    crumbling pine tree stock.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)