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

A lake is a 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 Walden

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