A Commonplace Book

Category: lakes...

  • lakes are abundant in high northern latitudes and mountain regions once covered by glaciers
  • plankton, algae, and flagellates in the upper part of lakes
  • cruising Waterton Lake in Glacier Intern Peace Park or canoeing the lakes of the Adirondacks
  • the full moon over the Great Salt Lake
  • be a lake, experience the ripples across the water when a breeze comes or the droplets when rain comes; wait, for these will subside and calm will return
  • four-fifths of lake waters occur in a small number of lakes, perhaps 40 in all
  • North America, Africa, and Asia contain about 70 percent of total lake water
  • the total surface area of all the Canadian lakes is estimated to be bigger than the province of Alberta
  • Alaska has more than 3 million lakes
  • the chemical-biological changes within a lake's history offer a fine example of ecological succession
  • A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. (HD Thoreau)
  • Don't sell firewood by a forest, nor fish beside a lake. (Chinese proverb)
  • the largest lake in a lake is Manitou, on an island in Lake Huron

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