Seas and Lakes
- Mediterranean coastal strip
- Sunny beaches and hotel resorts
- Dead sea
- The lowest point on the Earth's surface and the deepest hypersaline lake in the world, famous for its buoyancy and medicinal qualities
- Red Sea
- Sunny beaches and hotel resorts, popular destination for SCUBA diving and water sports
- Sea of Galilee
- Sunny beaches and hotel resorts
- Important Christian holy sites, including Mount of Beatitudes, Bethsaida, Kursi and Tel Hadar, site of the miracle of the feeding of the Gentiles.
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Famous quotes containing the words seas and/or lakes:
“Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value; they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)