Base Quote by John Joly

“A humorous treatment of the rigid uniformitarian view came from Mark Twain. Although the shortening of the Mississippi River he referred to was the…

— Mark Twain

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Full-scale river systems mature the same way, carving out large, varying paths over thousands of years. Geologically young rivers flow straight and fast, whereas…

— Nick Gogerty

Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of…

— D. V. Ager

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…

— Lynn Culbreath Noel

We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.

— Rob Brown

The myriad valleys could have arisen anywhere on the landscape. The current positions are quite accidental. If we could repeat the experiment, we might…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below…

— Laozi

Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date?

— Peter Kay

“The formations run from the Late Permian to Early Cretaceous Periods. That’s 200 million years’ worth of deep time. When you look closely, the…

— Bill Nye

“Soon the river would narrow and carve through water rushes and overhanging trees still dripping with weed and flotsam from the previous high tide;…

— Sarah Winman