Quotes about river
rivers environmental world
If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that intellect in its march has spared one vestige of the ancient forest for me to die by. Thomas Cole
rivers environmental flow
There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone. Roberta Flack
rivers able doe
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it. Richard Rohr
rivers environmental gliding
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland. Virgil
rivers wind horny
I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation. William Henry Ashley
rivers feet depth
Never test the depth of river with both the feet. Warren Buffett
rivers water dip
Dip him in the river who loves water. William Blake
rivers soul ultima
I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things. Rudolfo Anaya
rivers mourning tongue
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems. W. H. Auden
rivers tennessee boat
I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee. William Christopher Handy
rivers helpful loud
There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river. Vash Young
rivers space matter
Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change. Ursula K. Le Guin
rivers rocks choices
To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.
rivers land trying
What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
rivers judging next
We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us like a river. Stephen Colbert
rivers jail people
Let freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.
rivers tears taj-mahal
The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time. Rabindranath Tagore
rivers environmental months
Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament. Ralph Waldo Emerson
rivers culture young
When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze. Kurt Lewin
rivers path resistance
Cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked. Hmmmm. Utah Phillips
rivers water flow
Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow. Stephen King
rivers wildlife dams
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation. Stephen Ambrose
rivers mind environmental
In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.
rivers events violent
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too. Marcus Aurelius
rivers velocity resistance
The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either. Swami Vivekananda
rivers dinner said
Joan Rivers, who said to Marcel Marceau, Can we talk? Never got a dinner! Red Buttons
rivers space water
But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind. Rupert Brooke
rivers knowing wind
And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river. Rumi
rivers long soldier
You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in. Tom Waits
rivers world misery
Misery is the River of the World
rivers relax leafs
You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you. Steven Erikson
rivers tea cups
Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river. Steve Martin
rivers long waiting
Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you. Sun Tzu