Northwestern Thorn Scrub Forest
The Northwestern thorn scrub forests are a xeric shrubland ecoregion of Pakistan and northwestern India, a region of extreme temperatures and a climate that was once covered in deciduous forest.
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Famous quotes containing the words thorn, scrub and/or forest:
“So long as I have been here I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man’s bosom.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep;
And the young lie long and dream in their bed....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
““I am as brown as brown can be,
And my eyes as black as sloe;
I am as brisk as brisk can be,
And wild as forest doe.”
—Unknown. The Brown Girl (l. 1–4)