Swamp Chestnut Oak

Famous quotes containing the words swamp and/or oak:

“When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and, to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)