Upright Fossil Trees

Famous quotes containing the words upright, fossil and/or trees:

“An upright heart does not suspect others; one who suspects others has no upright heart.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit,—not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)