666 Quotes About Rivers




  • Author James Gleick
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    In reality, a river's basic shape... is not a line but a tree. A river is, in its essence, a thing that branches... Although it flows inward toward its trunk, in geological time it grew, and continues to grow, outward, like an organism, from its ocean outlet to its many headwaters. In the vernacular of a new science, it is fractal, its structure echoing itself on all scales, from river to stream to brook to creek to rivulet, branches too small to name and too many to count.

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  • Author Francine Rivers
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    The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he shatter her? 'What has this god of yours ever really done for you?' She stood very still for a long moment, her back to him. 'Everything.

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  • Author Mehmet Murat ildan
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    The student asked: Master, I've seen a river that doesn't flow, it can't be called a river anymore, right? The master answered: When you see a pianist who no longer plays the piano, what will you say to him? Violinist? Trumpeter?

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