Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. — Rachel Carson
The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while… — Theodore Roosevelt
The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying… — David Letterman
Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If… — Theodore Roosevelt
This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the… — Theodore Roosevelt
After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver,… — Theodore Roosevelt
A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time. — Matthew Arnold
It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers… — Frank Church
The affluent society has built well in terms of economic progress, but has neglected the protection of the very water we drink as well as… — Frank Church
Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all… — John Muir
Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished. — Rachel Carson
We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man… — Rachel Carson
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler,… — John Greenleaf Whittier
There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste.… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men. — John Muir
For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end. — Rachel Carson
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart. — Bernard of Clairvaux
In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead… — Rachel Carson
...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows… — John Muir
Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls,… — H P Lovecraft
The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of… — Jawaharlal Nehru
Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines? — John Muir
Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved. — Amy Lowell
The river makes the water flow. That's how I live. I just let everything flow. Flow with the river. — Vitor Belfort

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