. . . 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
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain. — Mike McAlary 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
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
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
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
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
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten:… — Lynn Culbreath Noel 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image