Great Sandy Bottom Pond is a 109-acre (0.44 km2) reservoir in Pembroke, Massachusetts. The reservoir is located south of Oldham Pond and Furnace Pond, and north of Little Sandy Bottom Pond. The reservoir is a Class A public water supply for the Abington/Rockland Joint Water Works.
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“Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Death’s at the bottom of everything, Martins. Leave death to the professionals.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)
“What if all ponds were shallow? Would it not react on the minds of men? I am thankful that this pond was made deep and pure for a symbol. While men believe in the infinite some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)