Cottonwood Groves

Famous quotes containing the words cottonwood and/or groves:

“Three centuries of piety
Grown bare as a cottonwood tree ...”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“The word by seers or sibyls told,
In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,
Still floats upon the morning wind,
Still whispers to the willing mind.
One accent of the Holy Ghost
The heedless world hath never lost.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)