Tropical South America

Famous quotes containing the words tropical, south and/or america:

    “Oh, you’ll love the sea. There’s something about it. The hot red dawn, the towering sails, the wake on a tropical night. Oh, you’ll love it all. It’s a glorious kind of world. I couldn’t live without it.”
    —Charles Larkworthy. Denison Clift. Capt. Benjamin Briggs (Arthur Margetson)

    “To lib and die in Dixie!
    Away, away, away down South in Dixie!”
    —Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815–1904)

    “I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)