“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
“A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.”
~William Wordsworth
“The great
fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake.
The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an
open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could
never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew
you would soon be free.“
fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake.
The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an
open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could
never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew
you would soon be free.“
~Willa Cather
“I
find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the
spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full
extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep!”
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Make your heart like a lake, with a calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.”
~Lao Tzu
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