“And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.”
Bible
“No strength within, no respect without”
Kashmiri Proverb
“And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.”
“The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.”
“So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.”
“Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.”
Hamlin Garland
