Quotes about mangrove

A collection of quotes on the topic of mangrove.

Quotes about mangrove

“Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Study , Grass

“Singapura means lion-city; prehistoric, myopic, Sanskrit-speaking visitors having spotted a mangy tiger or two in the mangroves. Sly Malays sometimes call it Singa pura-pura, which means ‘pretending to be a lion’…. It is a profoundly provincial town pretending to be a metropolis.”

Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer

Fiction, The Right to an Answer (1960)

“That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.”

Roy Blount Jr. (1941) American writer

Alphabet Juice (2008), p. 359.

“The damp packed earth beneath the magnolias was our playground, but even when I was small I watched the middle distance, as if my destiny might arise from the grooved line where the mangroves met the sky. Sometimes a pelican would appear out of the haze, six horizontal feet of pterodactyl in an effortless glissade, cruising just above the treetops, riding down the long, drawn-out minutes of the morning.”

Andrea Lewis (writer) Microsoft employee

"Rancho Cielito" Ontario Review, No. 65, (Fall/Winter, 2006-07)
2000-09

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