Famous quotes containing the words swamp and/or forest:
“Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“I perceive that in these woods the earliest settlements are, for various reasons, clustering about the lakes, but partly, I think, for the sake of the neighborhood as the oldest clearings. They are forest schools already established,—great centres of light.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)