Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth… and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
I jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I looked down, I saw a large river meandering slowly along for miles, passing from one country to another without stopping.… — John-David F. Bartoe Copy Share Image
Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs.… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
I like to do every operation the same way on each fly. In the course of tying a batch of flies, I… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in… — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
I've learned from being in the woods that titles don't mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words -… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
Allowing the fly to sink to the fish's level, the angler makes a retrieve. The fly comes directly at the fish, which… — Lefty Kreh Copy Share Image
Trying to control the emotional self willfully by manipulative attempts is like trying to choose a number on a thrown die or… — Shoma Morita Copy Share Image
Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And… — David Abram Copy Share Image
I am beginning to understand that the stream the scientists are studying is not just a little creek. It's a river of… — Kathleen Moore Copy Share Image
If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
When thou are not pleased, beloved, Then my heart is sad and darkened, As the shining river darkens When the clouds drop… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries,… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Some beings will walk with you for the duration of this bodily existence, up to the very end. Some will come with… — Mooji Copy Share Image
They have poisoned the Thames and killed the fish in the river. A little further development of the same wisdom and science… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes,… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I stared at the Ohio River every day as a child, a thing that for me is almost more symbol than river.… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
Johnny Rivers...returned to L.A. to accept a lucrative offer from Elmer Valentine to open at his lavish new nightclub based upon the… — Glenn A. Baker Copy Share Image
All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have come to a still, but not a deep center, A point outside the glittering current; My eyes stare at the… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
“The river loved to tell everybody (everybody being the sky, the wind, the few trees that grew around there, birds, deer and… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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