Spruce Goose

Famous quotes containing the words spruce and/or goose:

    The canoe and yellow birch, beech, maple, and elm are Saxon and Norman, but the spruce and fir, and pines generally, are Indian.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The captain was a duck
    With a packet on his back,
    And when the ship began to move
    The captain said, Quack! Quack!
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I saw a ship a-sailing (l. 13–16)