666 Quotes About Rivers
- Author Thomas Lloyd Qualls
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Their story is our story, as well. We are the begotten ones. Our flesh is made of clay. Rivers run through our veins. Our lineage stretches from the ocean floor to the mountain crest. This is the beginning of knowledge.
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- Author Amit Kalantri
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If the earth is a mother then rivers are her veins.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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A river flow freely from its source.
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- Author Fennel Hudson
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Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery.
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- Author Charles Bowden
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Americans place 'strong subjective value' on the Father of Waters and will block any diminishment of its flow.
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- Author Israelmore Ayivor
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Birds do not attend flight schools; Rivers do not attend flowing colleges; Fishes do not attend swimming conferences; Trees do not attend fruit bearing seminars... There is something that you can do automatically that someone may not do... Find it and do it! There is something someone may do automatically that you may not do; leave it for him to it!
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- Author Nan Shepherd
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One cannot know the rivers till one has seen them at their sources; but this journey to sources is not to be undertaken lightly. One walks among elementals, and elementals are not governable. There are awakened also in oneself by the contact elementals that are as unpredictable as wind or snow
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- Author Patricia Lockwood
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See men for miles around give nature what she needs,rivers and rivers and rivers of it. You exhale with perfecthappiness. Nature turned you down in high school. Now you can come in her eye.
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- Author Caleb Carr
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She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.
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