North Lake Village

Famous quotes containing the words north, lake and/or village:

    “Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints
    Of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone! None of your half-mile swamps, none of your mile-wide woods merely, as on the skirts of our towns, without hotels, only a dark mountain or a lake for guide-board and station, over ground much of it impassable in summer!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,
    And news much older than their ale went round.”
    —Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)