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Quotation from Walden by Henry David Thoreau
“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.”
Walden, The Ponds (Project Gutenberg text)
Thoreau's description of Walden in early autumn, joining exact observation of the shore to the book's search for self-knowledge.
Citation: "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, Walden, The Ponds (Project Gutenberg text). (id walden-q5)
Portrait: Walden Thoreau, Ticknor and Fields (publisher), Public domain.
