We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly… — Robert Sirico Copy Share Image
Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
What?" It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire,… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever. — Minette Walters Copy Share Image
When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America,… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing. — Pocahontas Copy Share Image
Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees… — Keri Hulme Copy Share Image
I buried her on the shore," he whispered as Fireheart padded up and sat down beside him. "She loved the river." He… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image