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 something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in a sickly air. People can be slave-ships in shoes.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)