Famous quotes containing the words pebble and/or bed:
“The murmuring surge,
That on th’ unnumbered idle pebble chafes,
Cannot be heard so high.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It is remarkable with what pure satisfaction the traveler in these woods will reach his camping-ground on the eve of a tempestuous night like this, as if he had got to his inn, and, rolling himself in his blanket, stretch himself on his six-feet-by-two bed of dripping fir twigs, with a thin sheet of cotton for roof, snug as a meadow-mouse in its nest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)