Famous quotes containing the words water and/or ice:
“The water for which we may have to look
In summertime with a witching wand,
In every wheelruts now a brook,
In every print of a hoof a pond.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“Every incident connected with the breaking up of the rivers and ponds and the settling of the weather is particularly interesting to us who live in a climate of so great extremes. When the warmer days come, they who dwell near the river hear the ice crack at night with a startling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were rent from end to end, and within a few days see it rapidly going out. So the alligator comes out of the mud with quakings of the earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)