Robert William Wood Quotes

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Very few can Tell the Toucan From the Pecan — Here's a new plan: To take the Toucan from the Tree, Requires immense agilitee, While anyone can pick with ease The Pecans from the Pecan trees. It's such an easy thing to do, That even the Toucan he can too.

Robert William Wood

The Argonaut or Nautilus, With habits quite adventurous, A combination of a snail, A jelly-fish and a paper sail. The parts of him that did not jell, Are packed securely in his shell. It is not strange that when I sought To find his double, I found Naught.

Robert William Wood

If you listen to the shell, In which the Whelk is said to dwell, And hear a roar, beyond a doubt It indicates the Whelk is out.

Robert William Wood

The Plover and the Clover can be told apart with ease, By paying close attention to the habit of the Bees, For Entomologists aver, the Bee can be in Clover, While Etymologists concur, there is no B in Plover.

Robert William Wood

Robert William Wood

Robert William Wood

Born: March 4, 1889

Died: March 14, 1979 (aged 90)

Bio: Robert William Wood was an American landscape painter. He was born in England, emigrated to the United States and rose to prominence in the 1950s with the sales of millions of his color reproductions.

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