Environmental Quote by Leo Tolstoy

Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere,…

— Tom Robbins

Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and…

— Edward Gargan

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people… We are a nation rich in rivers.

— Charles Kuralt

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling…

— Charles Kuralt

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

— Laura Gilpin

A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another,…

— Aberjhani

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

— Blaise Pascal

A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their…

— Alan Stern

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

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present…

— Leonardo da Vinci

In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. In this period of deep national…

— Helen Hayes