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)

    “Woodlands, meadows,streams and rivers—
    Blind to all of it all my life long.
    Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus,
    Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick,”
    —Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)

    “Ye say they all have passed away,
    That noble race and brave;
    That their light canoes have vanished
    From off the crested wave;
    That, mid the forests where they roamed,
    There rings no hunters’ shout;
    But their name is on your waters,
    Ye may not wash it out.”
    —Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865)