Largest Artificial Lake

Famous quotes containing the words artificial lake, largest, artificial and/or lake:

    “It had not a New England but an Oriental character, reminding us of trim Persian gardens, of Haroun Al-raschid, and the artificial lakes of the East.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “This is my lake country.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)