Quotessence
Home / Topics / Marshes Quotes

Marshes Quotes

Browse 91 quotes about Marshes.

Related topics

MenWaterSea

Marshes Quotes

“One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window. She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom.”

BookPastWaterDarkStudyAirFieldsSweetLessonsSingingSittingWindowShiningWoodsWideSnowEveningQueensFallenLakesJuneFrogsReverieOrchardMarshesCloversSnow Queen
Book:The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more
Create image

“She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through it, silent death. It was a place where snakes could slither and bogs could suck the shoe right off your foot. And it was a place, she thought, that went bright and beautiful with the twinkling of fireflies, where wildflowers thrived in the shade and the stingy light. Where an eagle could soar like a king. There was no beauty without risk. No life without it.”

LightBeautifulWaterDarkRiskFeetGrewKingsSummerSilentShoesDeeperShadeSoarSnakesEaglesBreedingMosquitoesFireflyAlligatorsWildflowersGreenerMarshesTwinklingStingyBogsDark Water
Author:Nora Roberts
Create image

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”

FeelsYearsRunningMovingYoungLinesWatchesSeaEternalBirdFlowBreathsEdgesFlightShoreSaltTidesContinentsUp And DownMistMother NatureSurfEbb And FlowMarshesSilent SpringEelsSea Birds
Book:The house of life: Rachel Carson at work
Create image

“Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Moscow, holding on to her son, knowing she had failed him, crying for Alexander, wanting another drink, and Harold, in his prison cell, crying for Alexander, and Yuri Stepanov on his stomach in the mud in Finland, crying for Alexander, and Dasha in the truck, on the Ladoga ice, crying for Alexander, and Tatiana on her knees in the Finland marsh, screaming for Alexander, and Anthony, alone with his nightmares, crying for his father.”

FatherBehindsKnowingMinutesCrySonDrinkSittingPrisonTrainIceCellsKneesEach DayNightmareStomachMudComing BackTruckJaneHolding OnMoscowMarshesFinlandPrison CellsLeningrad
Author:Paullina Simons
Create image

“No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.”

KnowsMindSeemsQuietCreaturesGainsCaughtPocketsFriendlyPrivate LifeSprungMarshesMattressesZeta
Book:Life, the Universe and Everything
Create image

“You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are.”

DoeEndsLightEyeWaterWalksTreeFlowerStonesSilentWinterSandPrintPassagesTigersVeinsMarshes
Book:Invisible Cities
Create image

“And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.”

MenWorldWayGivingHumansHeartMayBookHardCareWantedLastsCertainNamesFeltAttentionMoralForeverRocksLimitsDon't CareEastToleranceReactionsI Don't CareAutumnWetUniformsPrivilegedHuman HeartGlimpseBoastScornAdmissionMarshesExcursionsHard Rock
Book:F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)
Create image

“High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness ... A new day has begun on the crane marsh. A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place ... Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.”

ArtBeautifulLyingValuesLanguageNatureAbilitySilenceQualityStageCryLowsHeavyPerceiveShakesThickHornsNew DayTrumpetsMarshesCranesBogsPandemonium
Author:Aldo Leopold
Create image

“Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.”

IfsMenShouldMaySoulRunningEvilWaterBornPowerAtheismShould HavePositive AtheismFountainStagnantDamsMarshes
Book:The Story of an African Farm
Create image

“We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country - its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps. We shall be unable to turn natural advantages to account unless we make use of local guides.”

ArtWarCountryUseFacesTurnsNaturalDesignFitMountainAdvantageAccountsArmyGuidesLocalsForestsFamiliarMarchArt Of WarAlliancesSwampsPrecipicePitfallsMarshes
Book:The Complete Art of War
Create image

“In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience only that acts like a light for a Muslim, that keeps him safe from wandering here and there, and saves him from the muddy marsh of disappointment, desperation and frustration.”

MenLongWisdomLightSufferingDarknessPathSafeDifficultyDisappointmentWanderIslamicFrustrationHardshipDesperationHere And ThereIntricateMuddyMarshesIslamic Wisdom
Author:Al-Ghazali
Create image

“I was glamorous because of magicians like George Folsey, James Wong Howe, Oliver Marsh, Ray June, and all those other great cinematographers. I trusted those men and the other experts who made us beautiful. The rest of it I didn't give a damn about. I didn't fuss about my clothes, my lighting, or anything else, but, believe me, some of them did.”

MenGivingBelieveMadeBeautifulClothesDamnExpertsRaysTrustedBelieve In MeMagicianJuneGlamorousLightingMarshesCinematographers
Author:Myrna Loy
Create image

“Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the reason the wise guru will not attempt to wake people up. I hope I'm going to be wise here and make no attempt whatsoever to wake you up if you are asleep. It is really none of my business, even though I say to you at times, "Wake up!" My business is to do my thing, to dance my dance. If you profit from it fine; if you don't, too bad! As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens."”

PeopleIfsKnowsReasonSpiritualityGrowsWiseNiceFlowerFineBedComfortableRainGardenWake UpProfitAwakeningWakingGuruBeing WiseThornsIrritatingMarshesWakes You
Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
Create image

“Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like the roar of the sea, gut their lives are shallow and stagnant, like the rotting marshes. Many are those who lift their heads above the mountain tops, but their spirits remain dormant in the obscurity of the caverns.”

LifeBelieveSpiritBeliefSeaFineMountainTestsLiftsGutsExecutionShallowObscurityStagnantDormantRottingMarshesFine ThingsMountain TopCaverns
Author:Khalil Gibran
Create image

“To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, 'There. That taste. That's the taste of my childhood.'”

MemoriesGrowing UpGrowingChildhoodTasteSpringBlueSilentSouthKneesNovelistsOccupationSouthernShellsMudCarolinaOystersChildhood MemoriesHensSouth CarolinaMarshesChildren Growing UpSpring DayHerons
Book:The Prince of Tides: A Novel
Create image

“There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the marsh like, waiting for the storm before you came and kneeled in the water? It was nothing. Watch after you leave the water, now cold and regretful, miles from home, certain of the belt on your backside, the cold shoulder, the extra chores; watch. Watch the water heal itself of your presence--not to repair injury but to offer itself again should you care to risk another strapping [...].”

ShouldStillsHomeCareCertainFatherWaitingWaterWatchesRiskColdOffersEarsStormMilesShouldersHealExtrasInjuryBeltsWhisperingChoresYour PresenceMarshesBacksidesRegretfulHeal ItselfCold Shoulder
Author:Paul Harding
Create image

“We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also the best way to get there. A river knows better-:it has to do with how it dissipates the energy of its flow most efficiently; and how, in its bends, the sediment deposited soon turns into marshes and swampy islands, harboring all manner of interesting life, imparting charm and character to the whole waterway. I would defy you to find a river on this planet that prefers to run straight, unless it has been taught so by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.”

ThinkingKnowsWayHas BeensTwoEndsWholeCharacterRunningTurnsEnergyGrowsLinesInterestingGrowing UpTaughtPlanetsFlowRiversArmyDistanceEnvironmentalHearingBest WayIslandsCharmEngineersStraight LinesMarshesInteresting Life
Author:Thomas W. Horton
Create image

“We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children.”

IfsWorldNeedsHumansChildrenCareCultureJusticeRaceTeachPlansMountainOceanRiversOur ChildrenGood ThingsAvailableTake CareForestsDesertHuman RaceSoilLakesStewardshipImplicitMarshesGood FutureGrasslands
Book:What Are People For?: Essays
Create image

“I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to nerve in our breasts making wild music, false phrases. I have done with phrases.”

NeedsChildrenLittlesDoneUseLyingMotherSpeakLanguageRoomsBreakFeetCryLoversPicksCrossesStormLovelyPhrasesBreastsNervesEchoesFeathersNeatScrapHowlResonanceSyllablesSewingWoolMarshesChimes
Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
Create image