Moist Evergreen Forest

Famous quotes containing the words moist, evergreen and/or forest:

    “I love the word warm.
    It is almost unbearable—
    so moist and breathlike.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The evergreen woods had a decidedly sweet and bracing fragrance; the air was a sort of diet-drink, and we walked on buoyantly in Indian file, stretching our legs.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The reason is:
    rats leave the sinking ship
    but we . . .
    we . . .
    didn’t leave,
    so the ship
    didn’t sink,
    and that’s madness,
    Lear’s song
    that’s Touchstone’s forest jest,
    that’s swan of Avon logic.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)