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)

    “Two bloodless wolves whose dry throats rattle,
    Two crows perched on the murrained cattle,
    Two vipers tangled into one.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)