Top Swamp Quotes

The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not.

So for a while, they sat peacefully in the swamp, listening to Mrs. Starch hum while the little panther slurped happily and the emerald leaves overhead shimmered and shook in the sunlight.

Swamp Definition

(n.) Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.

(v. t.) To plunge or sink into a swamp.

(v. t.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.

(v. t.) Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

(v. i.) To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.

(v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.

Thoreau the Patron Saint of Swamps because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, my temple is the swamp… When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most im...