Green Ridge State

Famous quotes containing the words green, ridge and/or state:

    “I passed a tomb among green shades
    Where seven anemones with down-dropped heads
    Wept tears of dew upon the stone beneath.”
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

    “All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I met a traveler from Arkansas
    Who boasted of his state as beautiful
    For diamonds and apples.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)