Companion Quote by George Eliot

“The river - with the sunlight flashing from its dancing wavelets, gilding gold the grey-green beech-trunks, glinting through the dark, cool wood paths, chasing…

— Jerome K. Jerome

The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity…

— Carole Maso

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

— Aidan Chambers

A good river is nature's life work in song.

— Mark Helprin

“I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it…

— Aidan Chambers

Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty! In these cool waves What can be lost?--…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.

— Edward Abbey

The moods of a river change from hour to hour and day to day. It can be still and serene as a glassy mirror,…

— Ernie Lyons

“Sunlight shines beauty aglow, by the banks of the river that quietly flow. Misty rain yields comfort to a muggy night. Wind of a…

— sherman kennon

“There's music along the river For Love wanders there”

— James Joyce

The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the…

— Myrtle Reed

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

— Pablo Neruda