"Banyan tree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you out, in case you then are free To stay awhile, beneath this banyan tree, And tell me all about your ...
— Poems of Experience • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... The Banyan tree in the Company's Botanic garden, is a fine tree, but it is of small dimensions compared with those of the ...
— Flowers and Flower-Gardens • David Lester Richardson
... from his seat under the banyan tree. He passed his hand unsteadily over his brow. Throughout the day the young ascetic had been plunged in profound meditation; and now, returning from heaven to earth, he was bewildered like one who awakens ...
— Imaginations and Reveries • (A.E.) George William Russell
... into all sorts of industries, professions, and arts. Her growth is absolutely natural. It is, too, one of the most economical growths the world knows. Nothing is lost in it. She spreads literally like the banyan tree. ...
— The Business of Being a Woman • Ida M. Tarbell
... the window of this room was a tank with a flight of masonry steps leading down into the water; on its west bank, along the garden wall, an immense banyan tree; to the south a fringe of cocoanut palms. Ringed round as I was near this window I would spend the whole day peering through the drawn Venetian shutters, gazing and gazing on this scene as on a picture book. From early ...
— My Reminiscences • Rabindranath Tagore |
