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] (18321898)
“We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,
Grayed in, and gray. Dream makes a giddy sound, not strong
Like rent, feeding a wife, satisfying a man.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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