White Pines

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or pines:

“Like the water, the Walden ice, seen near at hand, has a green tint, but at a distance is beautifully blue, and you can easily tell it from the white ice of the river, or the merely greenish ice of some ponds, a quarter of a mile off.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)