Tropical Dry Forests

Famous quotes containing the words tropical, dry and/or forests:

    “We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave.”
    —Irving Berlin (1888–1989)

    “I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned,
    Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree,
    And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,
    Nothing so much as mincing poetry.
    ‘Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)