Famous quotes containing the words tropical, dry and/or forests:
“Oh, youll love the sea. Theres something about it. The hot red dawn, the towering sails, the wake on a tropical night. Oh, youll love it all. Its a glorious kind of world. I couldnt live without it.”
—Charles Larkworthy. Denison Clift. Capt. Benjamin Briggs (Arthur Margetson)
“I knew very well that this hope was chimerical. I was like a pauper who mingles fewer tears with his dry bread if he tells himself that at any moment a stranger will bequeath to him his fortune. We must all, in order to make reality more tolerable, keep alive in us a few little follies.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“Tiger, Tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
—William Blake (17571827)
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