Brown Tree Snakes

Famous quotes containing the words brown, tree and/or snakes:

    “Unreal City,
    Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
    A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
    I had not thought death had undone so many.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “That sound, everywhere about us, of the sea—
    the tree among its tresses has always heard it,
    and the horse dips his black body in the sound
    stretching his neck as if towards drinking water ...”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “Or driven wild
    by snakes that kept the carrots clean,
    she butchered snakes and carrots with a hoe.”
    —Richard Hugo (1923–1982)