California Black Oak

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)

    Let the Brazos
    Freeze solid! And the Wabash turn to a leaden
    Cinder of ice! The MaraƱon is too tepid, we must
    Is freezing slowly in the blasts. The black Yonne
    Congeals nicely.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)