Birch Bark Quotes

#1. The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

William Cullen Bryant

#2. Rude poets of the tavern hearth,
squandering your unquoted mirth,
which keeps the ground, and never soars,
while jake retorts, and reuben roars;
tough and screaming, as birch-bark,
goes like bullet to its mark;
while the solid curse and jeer
never balk the waiting ear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Our table was a large piece of freshly peeled birch bark, laid wrong side up, and our breakfast consisted of hard-bread, fried pork, and strong coffee well sweetened, in which we did not miss the milk.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Then there was silence, the air like ice. Brittle-looking birch trees with black marks on their white bark, and some kind of small untidy evergreens rolled up like sleepy bears. The frozen lake not level but mounded along the shore, as if the waves had turned to ice in the act of falling.

Alice Munro

#5. I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a guy.

Katy B

#6. The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

Berthold Auerbach

#7. I have two hands. I can hold two medals.

Shani Davis

#8. of them gave those thoughts a second consideration

James A. Moore

#9. There is always room for at least two truths.

Colum McCann

#10. I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

Jeffery Deaver