Tree Ring Width

Famous quotes containing the words tree, ring and/or width:

    “Our courage breaks like an old tree in a black wind and dies,
    But we have hidden in our hearts the flame out of the eyes
    Of Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Look how my ring encompasseth thy finger;
    Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart.
    Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Newly stumbling to and fro
    All they find, outside the fold,
    Is a wretched width of cold.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)