Shaker Lakes

Famous quotes containing the words shaker and/or lakes:

    “Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, and again, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)