World Trees

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or trees:

“The world is his, who has money to go over it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“At twelve, the disintegration of afternoon
Began, the return to phantomerei, if not
To phantoms. Till then, it had been the other way:
One imagined the violet trees but the trees stood green,
At twelve, as green as ever they would be.
The sky was blue beyond the vaultiest phrase.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)