Spruce Woods

Famous quotes containing the words spruce woods, spruce and/or woods:

    “In some of those dense fir and spruce woods there is hardly room for the smoke to go up. The trees are a standing night, and every fir and spruce which you fell is a plume plucked from night’s raven wing.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)

    “At last he rose, and twitch’d his mantle blue,
    Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)