Lake of The Woods County

Famous quotes containing the words lake, woods and/or county:

    “This is my lake country.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven and eight thousand majority! How people do hate Catholics, and what a happiness it was to show it in what seemed a lawful and patriotic manner.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)