Famous quotes containing the words lake and/or nation:
“The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain.”
—Lu Yu (d. 804)
“A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)