Lakes Quotes

• Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

  Muhammad Ali

  Religious, Greatness, Names

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• A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Nature, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Nature, Stars, Flower

  "A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul: More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit". Book by Jack Canfield (p. 188), September 1, 2012.

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• If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

  Loren Eiseley

  Garden, Rivers, Water

  The Immense Journey "The Flow of the River" (1957)

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• I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

  Johnny Depp

  Beer, Men, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

  Wallace Stevens

  Truth, Hiking, Environment

  "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction". Poem by Wallace Stevens, 1942.

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• The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

  Georges Simenon

  Nature, Real, Mountain

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• Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Nature

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

  William Wordsworth

  Water, Feelings, Recess

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• The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows like a river and thinks lake a lake!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic.

  Enid Blyton

  Beautiful, Running, Lonely

  "The Secret Island (Secret Series, Book 1)". Book by Enid Blyton, 1938.

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• In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mountain, Depth, Movement

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.439, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Thinking

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• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

  Herbert Hoover

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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• And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sweet, Thinking, Water

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Beach, Ocean

  E. E. Cummings, “Maggie And Milly And Molly And May”

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• My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

  Hamlin Garland

  Love, Peace, Nature

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• Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Country, Ocean, Air

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• Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

  Percy Ross

  Success, Ocean, Buckets

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• An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Ocean, Thinking

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• Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

  Maya Angelou

  Doors, Water, Grace

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

  Diane Ackerman

  Summer, Nature, Memories

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

  James Monroe

  Country, Land, United States

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I know I'm in a very fortunate minority and hope my story inspires both adults and children to be more careful.

  Brooke Burns

  Children, Life Changing, Helping Others

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• It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

  Hermann Maier

  Careers, Cities, Salt

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