Famous quotes containing the words tree and/or length:
“A single soldier does not make a general, just as a single tree does not make a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.
“When I had mapped the pond ... I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)