Petrified Woods

Famous quotes containing the words petrified and/or woods:

“New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

“You linger your little hour and are gone,
And still the woods sweep leafily on....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)