Famous quotes containing the word dry:
“The Plains are not forgiving. Anything that is shallowthe easy optimism of a homesteader; the false hope that denies geography, climate, history; the tree whose roots dont reach ground waterwill dry up and blow away.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)
“The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.”
—Brenda Ueland (18911985)
“This was the most completely maritime town that we were ever in. It was merely a good harbor, surrounded by land, dry if not firm,an inhabited beach, whereon fishermen cured and stored their fish, without any back country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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