Pine Mountain Lake

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

    “They reckon ill who leave me out;
    When me they fly, I am the wings;
    I am the doubter and the doubt,
    And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

    The strong gods pine for my abode,
    And pine in vain the sacred Seven;
    But thou, meek lover of the good!
    Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy,
    The sleepless soul that perished in his pride;
    Of him who walked in glory and in joy
    Following his plough, along the mountain side:
    By our own spirits are we deified:
    We poets in our youth begin in gladness;
    But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

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