American Chestnut Trees

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or trees:

“Were they to emigrate in a body to man the navies of the moon, almost every thing would stop here on earth except its revolution on its axis, and the orators in the American Congress.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“The trees persist, yeasty and sensuous,
as thick as saints.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)