Mountain Lakes

Famous quotes containing the words mountain and/or lakes:

“The mountain pushed us off her knees.
And now her lap is full of trees.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, and again, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)