Famous quotes containing the words north, pond and/or nature:
“Refinement’s origin:
the remote north country’s
rice-planting song.”
—Matsuo Basho (1644–1694)
“I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake, I pray?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The nature of rumor is known to all.”
—Tertullian (c. 150–230)