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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 talked about places, about the ways that we often talk about love of place, by which we mean our love for places, but…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The River', a poem from 'Profound Vers-A-Tales': Your perception of my exterior may not match what lies beneath the surface.”

— Kamil Ali

It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment,…

— Chris Kilham

“I was born in a country of brooks and rivers, in a corner of Champagne, called Le Vallage for the great number of its…

— Gaston Bachelard

“Jessica DuLong’s elegantly written "My River Chronicles" brings the past of the Hudson River into the vivid present, and carries forward the craft of…

— Gay Talese

Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have…

— Mary Wesley

“I shall tell them this story against the background of the county I grew up in and along the river I know and do…

— John Steinbeck

What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed.

— Rumi

“These days I live in a magical little village on Dartmoor in Devon, England, and my "special spot" is a moss-covered rock in a…

— Terri Windling

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

— Aidan Chambers