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Rivers Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I…
- I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.
- Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons,…
- Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging…
- Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get…
- Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they…
- Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your…
- When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.
More Rivers Quotes
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers… — Bruce Babbitt
- Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. — Francis Bacon
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in… — Lord Acton
- Love is the river of life in the world. — Henry Ward Beecher
- I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's… — Halle Berry
- The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus… — Vinoba Bhave
- After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. — Buffalo Bill
- In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. — Daniel Boone