Famous quotes containing the words river, lakes and/or flood:
“The river sweats
Oil and tar
The barges drift
With the turning tide”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. Let our lakes receive as true names at least as the Icarian Sea, where still the shore a brave attempt resounds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“My ark sings in the sun
At God speeded summers end
And the flood flowers now.”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
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