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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.
~William Wordsworth
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller,
Gnomologia, 1732
A lake is the 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
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot
quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest
land. ~Joseph Conrad
