Pine Mountain Lake

Famous quotes containing the words pine, mountain and/or lake:

    “There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “There, on the mountain and the sky,
    On all the tragic scene they stare.
    One asks for mournful melodies;
    Accomplished fingers begin to play.
    Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,
    Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Lenin on a bench beside a lake disturbed
    The swans. He was not the man for swans.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)