Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can… — Edmund Muskie
Ancient rock paintings remind us that there are no unclaimed lands, that people have always lived here. They are wayposts along the river journey to… — Lynn Culbreath Noel
It's hard to see a river all at once, especially in the mountains. Down on the plains, rivers run in their course as straightforward as… — Lynn Culbreath Noel
The ancient Irish bards knew the Salmon of Knowledge as the giver of all life's wisdom. In the salmon's leap of understanding like a leap… — Lynn Culbreath Noel
We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous. — Lynn Culbreath Noel
As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes or a touch of wilderness in their souls, rapids will… — Sigurd F. Olson
Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go. — Blaise Pascal
To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the… — David Quammen
Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed… — Tom Robbins
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went. — Henry David Thoreau
The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood… — Henry David Thoreau
After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of… — Leo Tolstoy
In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In… — Stephen Ambrose
If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that… — Thomas Cole
In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. — Aldo Leopold
We realize the indivisibility of the earth-its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals-and respect it collectively not only as a useful servant but… — Aldo Leopold
Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so… — Aldo Leopold
We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be… — Aldo Leopold
Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal… — Barry Lopez
While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all. — Paul Newman
Kunlun Mountain Over the earth the greenblue monster Kunlun who has seen all spring color and passion of men. Three million dragons of white jade… — Mao Zedong
It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Celebration is without any cause. Celebration is simply because we are. We are made out of the stuff called celebration.That's our natural state - to… — Rajneesh
This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees and the birds… — Rajneesh

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