Coastal Quote by Ken Kesey

Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size,…

— John Playfair

In central Colorado the Continental Divide is a wilderness of desolate peaks that rise far above the timber line into regions of rime and…

— John Wesley Powell

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

— Norman Maclean

Free shackled rivers!...The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the Colorado [River].

— David Foreman

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out…

— Desmond Tutu

The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

— Ovid

Any river is really the summation of the whole valley. To think of it as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part.

— Hal Borland

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

— Heraclitus

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

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.

— Peter Shumlin

“A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is…

— John Steinbeck

Typically, settlements, habitations, roads and major trails are in river valleys and on bodies of water. If you are lost, your best bet is…

— Steven Rinella