Oak Brook

Famous quotes containing the words oak and/or brook:

    “When the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Our life runs down in sending up the clock.
    The brook runs down in sending up our life.
    The sun runs down in sending up the brook.
    And there is something sending up the sun.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)