Famous quotes containing the words lake and/or desolation:
“These beginnings of commerce on a lake in the wilderness are very interesting,these larger white birds that come to keep company with the gulls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captains exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country withoutoh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
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