Red oak may refer to:
- Lobatae, a group of oak trees
- Quercus rubra, the northern red oak, a tree native to southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States
- Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous snake species found in North America
Red Oak may refer to several place names in the United States:
- Red Oak, Georgia
- Red Oak, Iowa, a town in southwestern Iowa
- Red Oak, North Carolina
- Red Oak, Oklahoma
- Red Oak, Texas
- Red Oaks Mill, New York
Famous quotes containing the words red and/or oak:
“Now I am alone with the dead,
flying off bridges,
hurling myself like a beer can into the wastebasket.
I am flying like a single red rose,
leaving a jet stream
of solitude....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)