Quotes about Bog

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is in the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigour of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador any greater wildness than in some recess of Concord, i.e. than I import into it.

Do my will, beloved. I drew you up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set your feet upon a rock.