River Lakes Flood

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 (1817–1862)

    “My ark sings in the sun
    At God speeded summer’s end
    And the flood flowers now.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)