Tropical Timber

Famous quotes containing the words tropical and/or timber:

“We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)

“Nothing is so beautiful as spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)