Tree
The tree under which the pledge was carried out remained at its site until the second Rashidun Caliph, Umar, cut it down during his reign on the grounds that people had started attaching religious significance to it to the point of reverence.
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Famous quotes containing the word tree:
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“What he loved so much in the plant morphological structure of the tree was that given a fixed mathematical basis, the final evolution was so incalculable.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“the scythers, Time and Death,
Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath;”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)