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  • The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

  • Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.

    Crazy   Men   Mad  
    'The Brook' (1855) l. 33
  • Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

  • There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

    Prayer   Men   Doors  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Prince Otto”, p.19, Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

    Men   Rivers   Water  
    William Beebe (1927). “The Log of the Sun”, p.139, Lulu.com
  • We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

  • When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

    Rain   Rivers   Water  
    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.53, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself.

    Rain   Rivers   Water  
    Linda Hogan (1996). “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World”, p.106, Simon and Schuster
  • In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

    Life   Time   Rivers  
    Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.258, OUP Oxford
  • For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.

    Rain   Science   Thinking  
    Sandra Postel (2014). “The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity”, p.184, Routledge
  • Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

    Running   Rivers   People  
  • All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

    Running   Sea   Rivers  
  • I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

    Rain   Moving   Memorable  
  • The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.

    "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.
  • A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

    Rivers   Water   Paddling  
    "New Jersey v. New York, et al., 283 U.S. 336, 342". Judicial opinion, 1931.
  • Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road.

    Home   Memorable   Unique  
  • To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

    Nature   Hands   Rivers  
  • Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

    Rain   Men   Rivers  
    'The Brook' (1855) l. 33
  • Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.

    Science   Oxygen   Two  
    D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6710, Delphi Classics
  • Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

    W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.105, Princeton University Press
  • The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

  • Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

    Ocean   Air   Aquariums  
  • Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.

    Rain   Fall   Blessing  
    Donald Worster (1994). “The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination”, p.84, Oxford University Press
  • Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.

  • No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one State, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people.

    Men   Rivers   America  
  • Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

    Rain   Rivers   Water  
    Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.15, Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

    Heart   Rivers   Glasses  
    Wallace Stegner (2015). “The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West”, p.35, Vintage
  • I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

  • The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!

    Rivers   Knowing   Water  
    Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.10
  • What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

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