Quotes about rivers
rivers goes-on
The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn’t about me. Jackie Kennedy
rivers creeks revenue
Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue. Jim Fowler
rivers environmental knows
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it. George William Curtis
rivers differences mountain
It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind. Jefferson Davis
rivers
In a life properly lived, you’re a river, Jim Harrison
rivers drawing decision
A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted. Herbert Simon
rivers water soul
To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. Gretel Ehrlich
rivers dangerous careless
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.
rivers sea flow
Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea. Gregory Corso
rivers promise stories
Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting. Gregory David Roberts
rivers differences tree
We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves. Ian Somerhalder
rivers tree environment
The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.
rivers bridges crosses
The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
rivers waiting feelings
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. George Eliot
rivers flow dip
Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it Gary Paulsen
rivers neighbour
A mountaine and a river are good neighbours. George Herbert
rivers parent doe
One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next. Christopher Buckley
rivers rowing nothing-new
I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new. Fanny Kemble
rivers flow sacred
The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.) Euripides
rivers light fame
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Francis Bacon
rivers feminist feminism
There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics. Florence King
rivers movement bed
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course. Henri Bergson
rivers soul receptive
To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.
rivers feet choices
How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.
rivers dying way
Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying. Etel Adnan
rivers
A river of words flowed between us. Ernest Cline
rivers san-francisco guy
I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, its really hot, were up to our knees in a river of crap. Rats and cockroaches are all over. I would never, ever walk into that environment, except for the fact that the guy who does it every day is squatting next to me. Mike Rowe
rivers bird tree
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. Jay Inslee
rivers lakes people
Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many. Candice S. Miller
rivers mind entertainment
The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds. Ken Auletta
rivers dying knees
Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst. Kathy Mattea
rivers air water
The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute. Gloria Steinem
rivers water flow
They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same. Harry Reid