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Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean. -- Percy Ross
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths. -- Muhammad Ali
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. -- Germaine Greer
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. -- John Lubbock
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. -- Orison Swett Marden
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. -- Hamlin Garland
We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it. -- Jennifer Granholm
The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare. -- John Moody
As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy. -- Debbie Stabenow
Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many. -- Candice S. Miller
In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind. -- Ameen Rihani
Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion. -- Muhammad Ali
There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't. -- John Taylor
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there. -- Oscar Wilde
Born in the Flint, Michigan, big boat sailing on the Great Lakes and skiing in the winter was how most of my youth was spent. -- Doug Rice
In traditional 'Swan Lakes,' it's Prince Siegfried's 21st-birthday celebration, his coming-of-age. The entire court, from his mother the Queen on down, is on hand. -- Robert Gottlieb
The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people! -- Babatunde Osotimehin
In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water. -- Kurt Vonnegut
If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless. -- Bart Stupak
There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative. -- Kent Conrad
We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue. -- Yusef Komunyakaa
In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that make up Congressional District 21, including Hialeah, Westchester, Doral, Kendall, Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Medley and Palmetto Bay. -- Mario Diaz-Balart
Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about-slowly, ever so slowly-on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace. -- Robert Ardrey
I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of oil-powered globalism dissolves. Places like Buffalo, Cleveland, and Detroit will have a new life, but not at the scale of the twentieth century. -- James Howard Kunstler
I grew up in Mammoth Lakes, and they shot an episode up there, and I was hanging around when I was on the ski team. I was very, very involved in athletics, so I didn't watch a lot of TV, but I definitely watched a lot of '90210.' -- Trevor Donovan
If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds. -- Nelson A. Miles
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. -- Georges Simenon
Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve. -- Garrison Keillor
If you live in the mountains, you long for the trees and the lakes. -- Mitt Romney
It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City. -- Hermann Maier
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea. -- e. e. cummings
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. -- Walter Scott
Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior. -- Sara Paretsky
Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City. -- Jane D. Hull
...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too. -- Arthur Ransome
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. -- Herbert Hoover
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. -- Garrison Keillor
I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. -- Johnny Depp
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. -- Henry David Thoreau
For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses. -- Mark Foley
We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big. -- Adam Sandler
There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand. -- Charles Morgan
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation's lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries. -- Jerry Costello
When I was very young - around the age of nine - my family used to go to a house in Somerset that my stepfather rented every summer. There was fishing, lakes and riding. -- Christopher Lee
I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places. -- Afrika Bambaataa
What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa. -- Akon
I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into bottles when years ago it used to roll down and go into the lakes? -- Karl Pilkington
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. -- Hamlin Garland
No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. -- Thomas Friedman
Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival. -- Austin Peck
It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened. -- Georges Simenon
In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. -- Charles Lyell
Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure. -- Wayne Dyer
Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls. -- Michelle Obama
We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss. -- Johan Rockstrom
Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma. -- Jeff Merkley
I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve. -- Ellie Goulding
I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep muddy water and started screaming and sinking. My mom ran up, and I was just standing there a foot away and wouldn't stick out my hand to pull him up. So I'm probably not the best person to take on a camping trip. -- Norman Reedus
I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area. -- Bob Balaban
Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes? -- Pablo Neruda
The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers. -- Hilda Conkling
The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England. -- Henry David Thoreau
Money doesn't grow on trees but it does hang out in lakes -- Alex Gaskarth
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. -- Gil Scott-Heron
Rivers, water streams, water falls, water lakes, seas and oceans confirm Your creativity. -- Euginia Herlihy
Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset. -- J. K. Rowling
Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? -- P. G. Wodehouse
Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds. -- Henry David Thoreau
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods. -- Terry Gilliam
The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life. -- Zhuangzi
O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death. -- John Milton
The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light. -- John Muir
Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins. -- Paul Theroux
High school is worse than having to swim through multiple prahana filled lakes- and that's before the truckload of homework. -- Taylor Gaskins
Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country. -- Gaylord Nelson
Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway. -- Janet Fitch
If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams. -- Izaak Walton
Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. -- Dalai Lama
For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities. -- Rory Bremner
It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa. -- James A. Michener
Um ,sorry. I cant read the last line." "Fish. Have you stolen any fish from the holy lakes?" "I lived in Kansas..So ..no -- Rick Riordan
I grew up in a village of about 800 people surrounded by lakes and woods, and I think it's made a definite impact on me. -- Drew Hayden Taylor
I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me. -- Sara Paxton
Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish them dry. -- Sharon Gannon
The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves. -- William Carlos Williams
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. -- Edward Abbey
Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever-- The union of hearts--the union of hands-- And the flag of our Union for ever! -- George Pope Morris
Do not always run away from the darkness! Remember the beautiful lakes which are hidden inside the dark caves! In the least expected places, there exist the most beautiful treasures! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia , are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places. -- Marianne Fredriksson
The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms -- Bruno Latour
And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes. -- C. S. Lewis
At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a question which you must answer within your own heart. -- Mark Helprin
Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace. -- Susan Cohn Rockefeller
Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line. -- Arthur Lismer
The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body of forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on. -- William Z. Foster
Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with. -- George Bernard Shaw
Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that swap places...and that's just at Saturn. -- Phil Plait
In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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