Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
Everybody gets jolted. You, me, before we die we’ll all get nailed, lots of times. But that doesn’t mean we’ll get turned… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in… — Lee Wulff Copy Share Image
Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we’re doing or when, or whether it… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul.Gifts count for nothing;… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Flyfishing, which has a vaguely mystical aura, is a lot like work. I'm a frenetic flyfisherman. I wade up and down streams,… — James P. Gorman Copy Share Image
We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays… — Harriet Doerr Copy Share Image
I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
When you speak to a man or a woman about money, they will use water visualizations. For men, it typically is a… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of… — Nicholas Wolterstorff Copy Share Image
Putting Instagram into a different context is about rescuing it from the tyranny of now, taking it back from the muddy river… — Frances Stark Copy Share Image
He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I smell fennel," Launcelot said. "That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt,… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are… — Confucius Copy Share Image
If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Where was he, her Alexander, of once? Was he truly gone? The Alexander of the Summer Garden, of their first Lazarevo days,… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I like night fishing, even though there is a molecule of terror in it. Maybe it is that tiny bit of terror… — Paul G. Quinnett Copy Share Image
