Sitka Spruce Top

Famous quotes containing the words spruce and/or top:

    “And then we’ll sit
    in the shadowy spruce and
    pick the bones
    of careless mice,
    while the long moon drifts
    toward Asia”
    —John Haines (b. 1924)

    “Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down, does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.”
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)