Famous quotes containing the words oak and/or claims:
“Below me trees unnumbered rise,
Beautiful in various dyes:
The gloomy pine, the poplar blue,
The yellow beech, the sable yew,
The slender fir that taper grows,
The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.”
—John Dyer (16991758)
“For that is loves nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)