Lakes Quotes
478 Lakes quotes by 373 unique authors
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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,…
— Phil Plait
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Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will have the freshness of dewdrops in the early…
— Rajneesh
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Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and…
— Wendell Berry
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We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its origin.…
— John Daniel
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Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can…
— Edmund Muskie
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God is in the water of the lake; he is also in the cracked bed of the lake when the lake has dried up. God…
— Mansur Al-Hallaj
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"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" Like…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future…
— Wendell Berry
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No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each…
— Herbert Hoover
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Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.
— George Sand
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Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough.…
— Rolf Jacobsen
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When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Later as the day cools and they have gone in, the cry of the corncrake will carry across those same fields and over the lake…
— Edna O'Brien
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It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There is a lake…
— Randy Wayne
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In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Who Wrote These Lakes Quotes
373 authors contributed a total of 478 Lakes Quotes, led by these top contributors: