Swamp Nature Reserve

Famous quotes containing the words swamp, nature and/or reserve:

    “I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “When Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted
    For making so full-sized a man as she wanted,
    So, to fill out her model, a little she spared
    From some finer-grained stuff for a woman prepared,
    And she could not have hit a more excellent plan
    For making him fully and perfectly man.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    “We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)