Blue Ridge Railroad

Famous quotes containing the words blue, ridge and/or railroad:

    “While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
    I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.
    You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,
    You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.”
    —Li Po (701–762)

    “The light passes
    from ridge to ridge,
    from flower to flower.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Though the railroad and the telegraph have been established on the shores of Maine, the Indian still looks out from her interior mountains over all these to the sea.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)