Spruce Goose

Famous quotes containing the words spruce and/or goose:

    You did not expect to find such spruce trees in the wild woods, but they evidently attend to their toilets each morning even there. Through such a front yard did we enter that wilderness.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    This is the rat
    That ate the malt
    That lay in the house that Jack built.
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 4–6)