Mountain Lakes Quotes:

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

- Klaus Kinski

topic: Lakes, Water, Over You, Mountain Lakes

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

source: "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

topic: Education, Teacher, Nature, Inspirational Educational, Spiritual Nature

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

topic: Nature, Stars, Flower, Man And Nature, Inspirational Nature

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Music, Laughter, Reality, Lamentation, Mountain Lakes

To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.

- Norman Borlaug

topic: Luxury, Rivers, Lakes, Mountain Lakes, Human Population

One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes...

- John Muir

topic: Morning, Rivers, Lakes, Lakes And Rivers, Mountain Lakes

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

source: Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Emil Marriot (1989). “Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja”

topic: Eye, Lakes, Mountain, Her Eyes, Mountain Lakes

When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.

- Matsuo Basho

topic: Wind, Lakes, Water, Mountain Lakes, Clear Water

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

topic: Nature, Sunset, Fire, Modern Day, Mountain Lakes

The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.

- William Blake

source: William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.204, Delphi Classics

topic: Cities, Names, Rivers, Mountain Lakes

During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true vacation paradise, offering visitors a chance to jump into crystal-clear mountain lakes and see if they can get back out again before their bodily tissue is frozen as solid as a supermarket turkey.

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.80, Ballantine Books

topic: Vacation, Lakes, Offering, Mountain Lakes