Famous quotes containing the words big, cypress and/or swamp:
“Better to master a small skill than to accumulate a big fortune.”
—Chinese proverb.
“It was a green world,
Unchanging holly with the curled
Points, cypress and conifers,
All that through the winter bears
Coarsened fertility against the frost.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“To warm the frozen swamp as best it could
With the slow smokeless burning of decay.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)