Swamp Nature Reserve

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

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

“We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)