All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face… — Ethel Lynn Beers Copy Share Image
Ludlow…is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The 'Great Walk to Beijing' was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer 'thrivers,' including… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything.… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an… — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Max cuffed his brother good-naturedly on the ear as River slid in past him and bent to kiss Sophia on the cheek.… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool… — Jack Ohman Copy Share Image
The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
This was a voice that drew out memories stretched thin by years of recollection, like paper unfolded and refolded too many times.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living… — Dylan Lauren Copy Share Image
Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source… — Nicola Salvi Copy Share Image
I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way, And every Bulrush on the river bank A… — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a… — Alastair Humphreys Copy Share Image
This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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
Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal… — Luna Leopold Copy Share Image
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters,… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
“And see the rivers how they run/ through woods and meads in shades and sun/sometimes swift and sometimes slow/ wave succeeding wave… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with… — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
It is the plight of man. And while the blame lies partly on the river " Lotus gestures towards the dark waters… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs.… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy… — Andrew Dost Copy Share Image
All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
If you want to catch more fish, more often, take luck out of your fishing equation and replace it with knowledge of… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image