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“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!”

Heart States Hands Land Unions Unity Lakes Flags

Book:Poems of George P. Morris: With a Memoir of the Author

Source: Poems of George P. Morris: With a Memoir of the Author

“I shall speak only of the part I have stayed in- the districts of Lakes Ochrida and Presba. Here there are Greeks, Slavs, Albanians, and Vlahs. Of Turks, except officials and such of the army as may be quartered on the spot, there are few. The Albanians, I believe, are all Moslem. Should there be any Christians they would be officially classed as Greeks. A large part of the land near Lake Presba is owned by Moslem Albanians as ' chiftliks '(farms).”

Should Believe May Would Be Christian Speak I Believe Land Army Spots Greek Officials Lakes Farms

Author:Edith Durham

“[W]atching ducks land on a lake in Arkansas in the winter is about the closest to Heaven as you can find on this earth... and as someone who believes, according to my faith, I will go to Heaven when I die, I am pretty sure that there is duck hunting in Heaven!”

Believe Earth Dies Heaven Land Winter Lakes Hunting Ducks Closest Arkansas I Am Pretty Duck Hunting

Author:Mike Huckabee

“Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.”

Wells Wish Moral Sea Land Creatures Rivers Relation Dear Fishes Boat Code Dry Lakes Fishing Moral Code Dry Land

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity, that he has obtained the name 'Salmo Ferox'. I pull about this unnatural monster till he is tired, land him, and administer the coup de grace. Is this cruel? Cruelty should be made of sterner stuff.”

Should Made Names Stuff Grace Sea Land Rivers Tired Species Fishes Monsters Cruelty Boat Awe Lakes Fishing Immense Scotland Unnatural Trout Coups

Author:Arnold Gingrich

“There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.”

Men Form Water Magic Sea Land Draws Rivers Fishes Boat Hills Streams Lakes Fishing Creeks Over The Hill

Author:Herman Melville

“I am almost certain fishermen posess a peculiar bend to their makeup. Fisherman are optimists, and the fish in the future is always preferable to the fish at hand. Even the best fishermen catch fish only a small percentage of the time, which means we persevere in a sport that features failure as its main ingredient. Truly great days, when the fish hammer the fly as soon as it lands on the water are rare.”

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Author:Joseph Monninger

“The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate. . . . Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.”

House Water Boys Sea Land Minutes Rivers Stones Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Chocolate Cake Pool Worms Disturbing Hooked Trout Dredging

Author:Theodore Gordon

“As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.”

World Doe Spiritual Existence Sea Land Mankind Emotional Depends Rivers Lakes Farmers Fisherman Beauty Of The World

Author:Ansel Adams

“The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.”

Looks Facts Sun Doors Land Rose Lakes Dullness

Book:The Professor's House

Source: The Professor's House

“And here we are with our improved human world that we've spent a great deal of time and energy working on. We've improved the rivers and the lakes and the land and our society and our ways of living to the point where we now wonder if the human race will survive.”

Ifs World Way Humans Energy Deals Race Wonder Land Rivers Human Race Lakes Our Society Time And Energy

Book:Buddhism Plain and Simple

Source: Buddhism Plain and Simple

“The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit those regions. The fish of the Great Lakes are laced with mercury from industrial plants, and fluoride from aluminum plants poisons the land and the people. Sewage from the population centers is mixed with PCBs and PBS in the watershed of the great lakes and the Finger Lakes, and the water is virtually nowhere safe for any living creatures.”

Source: All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life

“We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.”

Water Tree Land Roots Wings Fishes Lakes Rice Paws Maple Syrup Fins Maple Syrup Aquifers

Author:Winona LaDuke

“Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.”

“I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so.”

Poor Land Sorry Lakes Cottages I'm So Sorry

Author:Kurt Vonnegut