State Tree

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or tree:

“The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of the Ozarks! He is the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the smallpox on his mother’s side!”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“A tree swayed overwater.
A voice said:
Stay. Stay by the slip-ooze. Stay.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)