Red oak may refer to:
- Lobatae, a group of oak trees
- Quercus rubra, the northern red oak, a tree native to southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States
- Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous snake species found in North America
Red Oak may refer to several place names in the United States:
- Red Oak, Georgia
- Red Oak, Iowa, a town in southwestern Iowa
- Red Oak, North Carolina
- Red Oak, Oklahoma
- Red Oak, Texas
- Red Oaks Mill, New York
Famous quotes containing the words red and/or oak:
“He gives the impression of a strong mind which is composed and wise. His brown eye is exceedingly kindly and gentle. A child would like to sit in his lap and a dog would sidle up to him. It is difficult to associate his personality and this impression of kindness and gentle simplicity with what has occurred here in connection with these purges and shootings of the Red Army generals, and so forth.”
—Joseph Davies (1876–1958)
“Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)