Host Trees

Famous quotes containing the words host and/or trees:

    “The host is rushing ‘twixt night and day,
    And where is there hope or deed as fair?
    Caoilte tossing his burning hair,
    And Niamh calling Away, come away.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Who shall describe the inexpressable tenderness and immortal life of the grim forest, where Nature, though it be midwinter, is ever in her spring, where the moss-grown and decaying trees are not old, but seem to enjoy a perpetual youth.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)