Famous quotes containing the words upright and/or trees:
“I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in questionto be defended from the beginning to the end.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upwards towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)