Famous quotes containing the words california, black and/or oak:
“The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“This is the black sea-brute bulling through wave-wrack,”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)
“The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)