Best Marshes Quotes

66 Marshes quotes by 58 unique authors

In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight… — Rachel Carson
Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls,… — H P Lovecraft
Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia,… — H. L. Mencken
Swampy [ Marsh] and I live as far away from each other as we possibly can and still work together. But we just always felt… — Dan Povenmire
Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for… — Sylvia Earle
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of… — Walter Scott
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of… — John Updike
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity — George Steiner
From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or… — Lloyd Jones
Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality… — Mark Helprin
What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt… — Henry Miller
The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly… — Wystan Hugh Auden
On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds.… — Aldo Leopold
The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch… — Elizabeth Strout
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina… — Pat Conroy
We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can… — Margaret Atwood
Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am… — Brandon Sanderson
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no… — Toni Morrison
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the… — Charles Dickens
One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison. — Chris Wooding
She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through… — Nora Roberts

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