Famous quotes containing the words swamp and/or mountain:
“To warm the frozen swamp as best it could
With the slow smokeless burning of decay.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“A mountain chain determines many things for the statesman and philosopher. The improvements of civilization rather creep along its sides than cross its summit. How often is it a barrier to prejudice and fanaticism!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)