The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing. — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
Here's a good gag if you go swimming in a swamp and when you come out you're all covered with leeches. Just… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
This country belongs to all of us. We made this country from nothing, from mud-flats... Over 100 years ago, this was a… — Mr. Lee Copy Share Image
There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like… — Joy Kogawa Copy Share Image
Armed with my sword and wand, I was all set for a stroll through the swamp to look for a hungry monster.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises,… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
You know, I’ve had a really wonderful night tonight. I got to tell Kyrian and Julian that Valerius is in town and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I mean, if you pause over what it means at the age of 76 that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, the happiest single day… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Barrons has something the rest of us don't have. I don't know what it is, but I feel it all the time,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
