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  • The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die... It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated.

    Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.119, Routledge
  • Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral, The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepest still, The yew obedient to the bender's will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platane round, The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound.

    Sweet   Kings   Funeral  
    1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 1, stanzas 8-9. plantan=plane tree; holme=holly.
  • There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds; a snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.

    Stars   Spring   Sunset  
    John Galsworthy (2001). “The Forsyte Saga”, p.145, Wordsworth Editions
  • I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.

    Stars   Names   Tree  
    Ted Hughes (2011). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, p.6, Faber & Faber
  • All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o'er the grael spread.

    Hollies   Moss   Yew  
  • Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.

    Dog   Night   White  
    Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.181, Zillmann Publishing
  • Kuan Yew, I can never trust you as a politician.

  • Reptilian green the wrinkled throat, Green as a bough of yew the beard; He bent his head, and so I smote

    Yew   Green   Beard  
    Yvor Winters (1960). “Collected poems”
  • Jenk shook his head as he headed for the rental car counter. He felt his shoulders tightening as he walked away, certain that Izzy wasn't quite ready to be silent or invisible yet. He was halfway there when Izzy shouted, "Jenkins! I wish I could quit yew!" Of course. The obligatory Brokeback Mountain reference. Jenk flipped Zanella a double bird without bothering to look back.

    Suzanne Brockmann (2013). “Into the Storm: Troubleshooters 10: Troubleshooters 10”, p.311, Hachette UK
  • Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

    Rose   Yew   Quiet  
    Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.236, Delphi Classics
  • Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death no one so true did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strewn: Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me O where Sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there!

    Sweet   Flower   White  
    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 51
  • Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

    Stars   Flower   Moon  
    Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions
  • My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

    Love   Air   Yew  
    William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.413, Univ of California Press
  • For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.

    Rose   Yew   Cypresses  
  • I had a good personal relationship with Lee Kuan Yew and I used him, in the sense, that he... He made a statement in 1980, and he said in that statement that, "If Australia keeps going the way it is, it will finish up the poor, white trash of Asia." And he was right, because we were just going backwards.

    White   Australia   Yew  
    Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org
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