If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.
Youever insult Bride again, I swear I'll rip your throat out and feed you to the gators in the swamp. You understand me?" - Vane
I just started calling myself 'Swamp A-. ' Like, I have swamp a- right now. I had major swamp a- because I was wearing these Spanx to hold in my gut. . . It's like the bayou up in that region.
Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.
Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp.
. . . like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building erected on piles. The piles are driven down from above into the swamp, but not down to any natural or 'given' base; and when we cease our attempts to drive our piles into a deeper layer, it is not because we have reached firm ground. We simply stop when we are satisfied that they are firm enough to carry the structure, at least for the time being.
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
What gave it away? When she loaded me bound and gagged into the back of her truck? Or when she actually said. "I'm ready to kill you and throw your body inn the swamp? "Hey for a while there, it looked like you were going to talk your way out of it. I didn't want to interfere.
Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.
Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade. " Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while I plow a swamp with a goat's horn?" Yes, ma'am. And I aim to wear my seamless shirt while you do it.
That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers. " I now perceivedthe fitness of the term. This was the most perfectly swamped of all the roads I ever saw. Nature must have coöperated with art here.
I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.
