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...

You're one to talk about talking crap, Forester." Dunstan's voice interrupts the memory, and I can't help but feel a little grateful. "Accusing my dad of poisoning the swamp? What a bunch of bull.""It...

RYLAN!"I feel Ivy's palm on my chest and, with a powerful shove, she pushes me back, away from fire, danger, and death. In that moment after the tree plunges, I see Ivy for a single second as I fall....

Though I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in all manner of ways that'll seem insane to people in the future. And as doors to the next world go, a bog ain't a bad choice. It's not quite water...

It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that throughout evolutionary history, the eye evolved independently fifty to a hundred times. This is strong...

To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And s...

Get me in here. Get me in here now!" I order. I have to get out of the swamp before it happens again.But it does.I feel it before I see it. Dozens of thick, razor-sharp needles pierce my right leg, si...

You're all incredibly thoughtful souls who keep my head attached to my body.