Central World Tree

Famous quotes containing the words central, world and/or tree:

    In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, “galaxy” is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.
    Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)

    Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology!—I know of no reading of another’s experience so startling and informing as this would be.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    What I want to say, Linda,
    is that there is nothing in your body that lies.
    All that is new is telling the truth.
    I’m here, that somebody else,
    an old tree in the background.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)