Quotes about rivers
rivers feet common-sense
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. Ashanti
rivers swerve
They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river. Archibald MacLeish
rivers world hungry
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry. Ben Okri
rivers people gold
People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out. Art Linkletter
rivers fame turds
When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds. Charles Bukowski
rivers people boundaries
Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do. Aristotle
rivers air tree
Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment? Deepak Chopra
rivers brave stories
And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to. Ali Smith
rivers joy comfort
Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.' Adoniram Judson
rivers feet people
I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement. Aleksandar Hemon
rivers environmental conservation
In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. Aldo Leopold
rivers museums environmental
We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.
rivers water environmental
Hydrologists have demonstrated that the meanderings of a creek are a necessary part of the hydrologic functioning. The flood plain belongs to the river. The ecologist sees clearly that for similar reasons we can get along with less channel improvement on Round River.
rivers each-day breakfast
Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.
rivers broken sun
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.
rivers long feelings
Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time. A. A. Milne
rivers swim stones
When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.
rivers church towns
Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life. Agatha Christie
rivers justice people
When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements. Vandana Shiva
rivers mourning tears
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own. Antonio Porchia
rivers everyday mind
To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river. Eckhart Tolle
rivers rubies clear
Be wild; that is how to clear the river. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
rivers dying wells
Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod? Colin Mochrie
rivers ecuador spectacular
The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there. Annie Dillard
rivers literature oblivion
Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion. Doris Lessing
rivers newton found
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. Claude Levi-Strauss
rivers kentucky enemy
In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. Daniel Boone
rivers long mountain
His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long. E. B. White
rivers jumping jumping-in
You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them. Ann Patchett
rivers air paradise
In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy. Amanda Lindhout
rivers water stones
Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water). Chuck Klosterman
rivers curves want
Arya.' He looked down the silvery river and then back at Arya, and he gripped the hilt of Brisingr. He was so full of emotion, he trembled. He did not want to leave, but he knew he must. 'Stay with me-' Her gaze darted up. 'I cannot.' '...stay with me until the first curve in the river.' She hesitated, then nodded. Christopher Paolini
rivers water gone
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river. Anthony de Mello