Civilized Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the proverbial moderation…

— Henry David Thoreau

The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their…

— Robert Bauval

And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.

— Bible

And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the…

— Bible

The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame...…

— Henry David Thoreau

The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I…

— John Hanning Speke

“The idea was that in Palaeolithic days, contemporary with the Glacial Age of Northern Europe and America, the climate of Egypt was entirely different…

— Leonard William King

Nature seemed to have adorned herself for our departure with a profusion of fringes and curls, mingled with the bright tints of flowers, reflected…

— Henry David Thoreau

And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

— William Whipple

“Flint's pond! Such is the poverty of our nomenclature. What right had the unclean and stupid farmer, whose farm abutted on this sky water,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate had oared his boat through the reflections…

— Virginia Woolf