Lake

thumb|Lake Mapourika, New Zealand A lake is a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on the earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Quotes 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. The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows. Thoreau Henry David Henry David Thoreau 1854 Walden, or, Life in the Woods Ticknor and Fields Boston The Ponds It forms a little world within itself,—a microcosm within which all the elemental forces are at work and the play of life goes on in full, but on so small a scale as to bring it easily within the mental grasp. Forbes Stephen Alfred 1876 December The Food of Fishes Natural History of Illinois I 18 https://books.google.com/books?id=EJEWAAAAYAAJ A lakeIs a river curled and asleep like a snake. Thomas Lovell Beddoes, fragment written 1823-5; first published 1935; reported in The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987) See also Geography Pond Rivers Sea Water External links Lake Lakes lake Category:Lakes