To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain. — Mike McAlary Copy Share Image
Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land. — Luna Leopold Copy Share Image
Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by… — Jan Erik Vold Copy Share Image
The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you… — Lynn Culbreath Noel Copy Share Image
Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand… — William Ashworth Copy Share Image
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . .… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn. What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of… — Gretel Ehrlich 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
I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the… — Gretel Ehrlich 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
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
I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people… We are a nation rich in rivers. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country. — Bud Shuster Copy Share Image
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing. — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
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
