Dismal Swamp

Dismal Swamp may refer to:

  • The Great Dismal Swamp near Virginia and North Carolina, US
  • The Dismal Swamp in New Jersey, US
  • The Dismal Swamp in Tasmania, Australia

Famous quotes containing the words dismal and/or swamp:

    To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things—but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and, to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)