Quotes about river
rivers community balance
An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development. Lyndon B. Johnson
rivers land forever
I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands. Louis Bacon
rivers water pieces
We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there. Malala Yousafzai
rivers healthy environmental
If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future. John Kitzhaber
rivers firsts clean
It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted. Elizabeth Gilbert
rivers clouds mind
I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to become egoless, you have to learn the path of surrender. You have to learn how to melt into existence, how to become one with the rivers and the mountains and the clouds, how to feel affinity, attunement, at-onement. And then slowly, slowly you become a host. The day you are a host, the Guest comes. Rajneesh
rivers whole
We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them. Rob Brown
rivers dna tissues
The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues Richard Dawkins
rivers bird black
Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. Rebecca West
rivers flow truth-is
The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere. Robert Frost
rivers
Only the river is free, always changing but always the same...
rivers people important
A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river. Thomas Davis
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 growing language
Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer. Robert MacNeil
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 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 egypt denial
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. James Patterson
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 promise needs
It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty. Rick Riordan
rivers mountain body
...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies. Reinhold Messner
rivers today fountainhead
History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead. Wilbur Smith
rivers joy fishes
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. Zhuangzi
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