Tree Ring Width

Famous quotes containing the words tree, ring and/or width:

    “A tree may grow a thousand feet tall, but its leaves will return to its roots.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Tell me where is fancy bred,
    Or in the heart or in the head?
    How begot, how nourished?
    Reply, reply.
    It is engendered in the eyes,
    With gazing fed, and fancy dies
    In the cradle where it lies.
    Let us all ring fancy’s knell.
    I’ll begin it. Ding, dong, bell.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Newly stumbling to and fro
    All they find, outside the fold,
    Is a wretched width of cold.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)