One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade...… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit! — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“More and more, paddling the Yellowstone feels like that bedside visit, like we are attending to a friend in dire straits, a… — Alan S. Kesselheim Copy Share Image
“No matter the border, the Mekong has been an indiscriminate giver and taker of life in Southeast Asia for thousands of years.… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
I looked down at my clothes. They were slashed to pieces and full of bullet holes, but I was fine. Not a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We are surrounded by a lot of failed ecosystems; the moon being one, Mars, Venus. Theres evidence of water on Mars and… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals,… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction… — Chauncey Guy Suits Copy Share Image
Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and… — Joseph Monninger Copy Share Image
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to figure out what Holly Golightly was all about. One night after midnight I was still… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
“It is usual that little streams put their mouths into big rivers. Most rivers can also be traced to the big sea.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I shall tell them this story against the background of the county I grew up in and along the river I know… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the… — Julia Gregson Copy Share Image
O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by… — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Women Are Not Roses Women have no beginning only continual flows. Though rivers flow women are not rivers. Women are not roses… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes,… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Civilisation never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of… — Ritwik Ghatak Copy Share Image
They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image