Red Gum Forests

Famous quotes containing the words red, gum and/or forests:

    “a flock of bright red lanterns
    has settled.”
    —Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976)

    “Two wooden tubs of blue hydrangeas stand at the foot of the stone steps.
    The sky is a blue gum streaked with rose. The trees are black.
    The grackles crack their throats of bone in the smooth air.
    Moisture and heat have swollen the garden into a slum of bloom.
    Pardie! Summer is like a fat beast, sleepy in mildew....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear the atmosphere of smoke.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)