A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

- Henry David Thoreau -

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

- Emailiano Zapata -

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods
And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

- William Allingham -

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

- Rachel Carson -

Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature.

- William Cullen Bryant -