Tree Ring Width

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

    “If the tree is straight it need not fear casting a crooked shadow.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Ring out the old, ring in the new,
    Ring happy bells, across the snow:
    The year is going, let him go;
    Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

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