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)

“Where once the waters of your face
Spun to my screws, your dry ghost blows,
The dead turns up its eye....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“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)