Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

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
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river. — Indira Gandhi
American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door.… — Charley Reese
For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural… — Kevin Rudd
If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly… — Nikola Tesla
The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you… — Ian Somerhalder
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of… — Lester R. Brown
This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each… — Herodotus
When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you… — Leonardo da Vinci
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things… — Anne Lamott
How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world… — Henri Frederic Amiel
During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've… — Harriet Doerr
Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river's pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through… — Coleman Barks
A long time ago, there were lovers that lived on the opposite ends of a river. They promised to meet when the camellia flowers bloomed.… — John the Apostle
There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the… — Bob Dylan
But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense… — Rupert Brooke
There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river… — George Eliot
Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their… — Charles Dickens
The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have… — Hermann Hesse
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers. — Charles Kuralt

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