Larch Quotes

The leaves of these [larch] trees are like those of the pine; timber from them comes in long lengths, is as easily wrought in joiner's work as is the clearwood of fir, and contains a liquid resin, of the color of Attic honey, which is good for consumptives. (Vitruvius)
I was never allowed to play with guns when I was a child. While various friends were able to scamper around the woods with their Johnny Sevens, I had to make do with an old twig. And convincing an eight-year-old he was dead simply because I'd pointed a piece of larch his way was not quite as easy as you might imagine. View quote
Jeremy Clarkson
I have looked on the hills of the stormy North, And the larch has hung his tassels forth. View quote
Felicia Hemans
... and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. View quote
John Irving
The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire nor ignite of itself, unless like stone in a limekiln it is burned with other wood. ...This is because there is a very small proportion of the elements of fire and air in its composition, which is a dense and solid mass of moisture and the earthy, so that it has no open pores through which fire can find its way... Further, its weight will not let it float in water. View quote
Vitruvius
It was hidden in a wild wood Of the larch and pine; It had been unto his childhood Solitude and shrine, - There he dream'd the hours away. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire. View quote
Vitruvius