Mud

Mud is a liquid or semi-liquid mixture of water and some combination of soil, silt, and clay.

A pair of muddy boots

Quotes

• Mud! Mud! Glorious mud!
  Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
  So, follow me, follow, down to the hollow,
  And there let us wallow in glorious mud.
  • Michael Flanders, The Hippopotamus Song

• I, too, saw God through mud -
  The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled.
  War brought more glory to their eyes than blood,
  And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.
  • Wilfred Owen, Apologia pro Poemate Meo

• Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood.
  Why should jolly soldier-boys complain?
  God made these before the roofless Flood -
  Mud and rain.
  • Siegfried Sassoon, Mud and Rain

• O German mother dreaming by the fire,
  While you are knitting socks to send your son
  His face is trodden deeper in the mud.
  • Siegfried Sassoon, Glory of Women

• Mud is mankind in the moulding,
  Heaven's mystery unfolding
  • Robert Service, Mud