Art Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Swamps where cedars grow and turtles wait on logs but not for anything in particular; fields bordered by crooked fences broken by years of…

— E.B. White

“Crossing the Swamp" Here is the endless wet thick cosmos, the center of everything—the nugget of dense sap, branching vines, the dark burred faintly…

— Mary Oliver

To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of…

— Barbara Hurd

“To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs. A roadless marsh is seemingly as worthless…

— Aldo Leopold

To me, draining the swamp means draining it of pandering and opportunism and filling it in with the fertile soil of freedom.

— Madison Cawthorn

“Thoreau the “Patron Saint of Swamps” because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, “my temple is the swamp… When I…

— Henry David Thoreau

They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There…

— Rudyard Kipling

“The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes…

— Wendell Berry

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come…

— Richard Le Gallienne

“That is the normal succession of things in this part of the world; you can see the various stages all over Scratch Flat. There…

— John Hanson Mitchell

“Centuries old, but recently widened, the highway was the same road used by pagan armies, pilgrims, peasants, donkey carts, nomads, wild horsemen out of…

— Walter M. Miller Jr

“My eyes wandered over the wall of pines circling the water. A short walk through these woods can yield tales as ancient as the…

— Bryan Wiggins