Tropical Dry Forests

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

    “Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
    A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
    That frequently happens in tropical climes
    When a vessel is, so to speak, “snarked.””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.”
    —Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)

    “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)