Famous quotes containing the words tropical, moist 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)
“Spindly branches of buttercups were secreted among gleaming stems still moist at the roots from last nights rain that had washed and refreshed the entire wood, had dowered it in poignant transparency, the unique, inconsolable quality of rainy countries, as if all was glimpsed through tears.”
—Angela Carter (19401992)
“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 (18031882)