Axe Lake Swamp

Famous quotes containing the words axe, lake and/or swamp:

“For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse and imperfect use Indians and hunters make of nature! No wonder that their race is so soon exterminated.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)