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)

    This was the most completely maritime town that we were ever in. It was merely a good harbor, surrounded by land, dry if not firm,—an inhabited beach, whereon fishermen cured and stored their fish, without any back country.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    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)