Birch Cooley Township

Famous quotes containing the words birch, cooley and/or township:

    The birch begins to crack its outer sheath
    Of baby green and show the white beneath....
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)