Sacred Tree

Famous quotes containing the words sacred and/or tree:

“What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun—it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“If the tree is straight it need not fear casting a crooked shadow.”
—Chinese proverb.