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)

“Panting, begging I clutched childlike, clutched to the hot sides of
death.
Now I am dry bones and my face a stony skull staring in yellow
surprise at the sun. . . .”
—Richard Wright (1808–1860)

“The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear the atmosphere of smoke.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)