Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Like a stone on the surface of a still river Driving the ripples on forever Redemption rips through the surface of time… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
And Potomac flowed calmly, scarce heaving her breast, With her low-lying billows all bright in the west, For a charm as from… — Paul Hamilton Hayne Copy Share Image
I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing,… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on… — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook,… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched. On the… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right… — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied… — Laozi Copy Share Image
He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce… — John Brough Copy Share Image
Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A book floated down the Amper River. A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held it in his right hand.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
...you find yourself studying the fine colors on the river, you feel wonder and awe at the setting of the sun, and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet! How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's feet! How… — Rossiter Johnson Copy Share Image
The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I… — Susan Sullivan Copy Share Image
I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in… — Lissie Copy Share Image
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire,… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness… — Margaret Murie Copy Share Image
There is Bengal, and Bihar, Barakor river is in the middle of them; so strange, so profound! No other river (not even… — Sukanta Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of… — John Denver Copy Share Image
If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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