Evergreen Forests

Famous quotes containing the words evergreen and/or forests:

    Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it ... that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

    What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)