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“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.”

Remember Nature Fire Tree Hundred Breaths Lovely Dawn Sunset Lakes Hiking Thread Recalls Trails Silk Forests And Trees Pine Trees Cedars Saffron Nature Walk Mountain Lakes

Author:Hamlin Garland

“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.”

May Water Consciousness Clear Wind Pure Mountain Moved Mediums Realization Lakes Ripe Serene Clear Water Mountain Lakes

Book:A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen

Source: A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs World Way Giving Reality Joy Voice Water Music Tears Sorrow Mountain Laughter Sitting Clouds Woods Hills Lakes Contemplating New Ways Tranquil Unrest Lamentation Mountain Lakes

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“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.”

Eye Mines Mountain Stones Green Lakes Lightning Her Eyes Unfathomable Indescribable Venus In Furs Precious Stones These Eyes Mountain Lakes

Book:Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja

Source: Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja

“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.”

World Long Made Stills Born Morning Creation Mountain Rivers Lakes Glaciers Rivers And Lakes Lakes And Rivers Mountain Lakes

Book:John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California

Source: John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California

“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”

I Can Dies Water Watches Truth Is Mountain Reactions Lakes Over You Mountain Lakes

Author:Klaus Kinski

“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.”

Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

“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.”

Knows Humans Enjoy Danger Mountain Rivers Pressure Population Forests Luxury Desert Lakes Wilderness This Day Wildlife Human Population Mountain Lakes

Author:Norman Borlaug

“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.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)