Avarice Quote by John Bunyan

“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

“Far out on the desert to the north dustspouts rose wobbling and augered the earth and some said they'd heard of pilgrims borne aloft…

— Cormac McCarthy

“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

“some said they’d heard of pilgrims borne aloft like dervishes in those mindless coils to be dropped broken and bleeding upon the desert again…

— Cormac McCarthy

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is…

— Barbara Hurd

“The world soon to be largely populated by men who would eat your children in front of your eyes and the cities themselves held…

— Cormac McCarthy

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

— Madison Cawthorn

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a…

— Anonymous

My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.

— Sean Connery

“And beneath Cornwall, beyond and beneath this whole realm of England, beneath the sodden marshes of Wales and the rough territory of the Scots…

— Hilary Mantel

“The solitary pilgrim drawn up before it had traveled far to be here and he knelt in the hot sand and held his numbed…

— Cormac McCarthy