Upright Trees

Famous quotes containing the words upright and/or trees:

“Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)