Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own,… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
“We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After… — Jo Deurbrouck Copy Share Image
It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and… — Parris Glendening Copy Share Image
I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never… — Louis Bayard Copy Share Image
O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in… — Ed Engle Copy Share Image
I think it's necessary to evaluate a skyscraper at multiple scales, since that's how we experience it: from right next to it… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as… — William James 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
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
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
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
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
Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind,… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The church of the elect, which is partly militant on earth, and partly triumphant in heaven, resembles a city built on both… — Augustus Toplady Copy Share Image
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes. — Dave Reichert Copy Share Image
This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
“Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his body food so he… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice Is that thou utterest while all else is still-- The ancient voice that, centuries ago,… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe,… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to… — Margaret Craven Copy Share Image
Think about this: If water is the blood of our planet flowing through veinous rivers, streams, and into our oceans, what does… — Ian Somerhalder 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
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
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 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
“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 live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and… — Joseph Monninger 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
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
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
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
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