Rivers Quotes

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A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it… — Henry Van Dyke
Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation. — Eudora Welty
The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart. — Unknown Author
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 doesn't know is… — Kenneth Grahame
I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars. — Edward Abbey
Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand… — David R. Brower
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and… — Hal Boyle
I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as… — Charles Kuralt
I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires. — Steven Morrissey
Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be… — Joan Rivers
I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have.… — Danny Kaye
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel,… — John Wesley Powell
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness… — Saint Augustine
Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails… — John Burroughs
There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to… — Olaus Murie
Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our… — Clifton Fadiman
The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues — Richard Dawkins
We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers. — John Green

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