The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
