There's no mastery to be had. You love the attempt. You don't master a story any more than you master a river.… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Isn't that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn't recognize or didn't think… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
We are never far from the lilt and swirl of living water. Whether to fish or swim or paddle, of only to… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
Ask Me Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
There walked warlocks in all their bat-winged, cat-eyed glory, and here, as they swung out over the river, she saw the darting… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over… — Kristin Harmel Copy Share Image
One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Sannyas means dropping the fight with the river, going with the river, allowing the river to take you, learning the art of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt there… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
When you learn how to trust your feelings then you'll know how to recognize it - That part of you that needs… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it,… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the… — Howell Raines Copy Share Image
In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and… — Joan Walsh Anglund Copy Share Image
By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Researches reported that they developed a self-healing plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater… — Lee Wulff Copy Share Image
Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and… — Joshua Copy Share Image
[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food… — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
True inner joy is self-created It does not rely on any outer circumstances A river is flowing in and through you carrying… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed… — J. G. Farrell Copy Share Image
I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Beyond speech and mind, Into the river of ever-effulgent Light My heart dives. Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia, Are opened… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image