Famous quotes containing the words dry and/or evergreen:
“The good die first
And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust
Burn to the socket.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“We could not well camp higher, for want of fuel; and the trees here seemed so evergreen and sappy, that we almost doubted if they would acknowledge the influence of fire; but fire prevailed at last, and blazed here, too, like a good citizen of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)