White Flowers

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or flowers:

    The birch stripped of its bark, or the charred stump where a tree has been burned down to be made into a canoe,—these are the only traces of man, a fabulous wild man to us. On either side, the primeval forest stretches away uninterrupted to Canada, or to the “South Sea”; to the white man a drear and howling wilderness, but to the Indian a home, adapted to his nature, and cheerful as the smile of the Great Spirit.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Ach, Mutter,
    This old, black dress,
    I have been embroidering
    French flowers on it.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)