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)

    “There is not even silence in the mountains
    But dry sterile thunder without rain
    There is not even solitude in the mountains”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “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)