Swamp Chestnut Oak

Famous quotes containing the words swamp and/or oak:

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

“When the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)