Air Quote by R.D. Blackmore

“Even the early droplets of selfish decisions suggest a direction. Then the little inflecting rivulets come, merging into small brooks and soon into larger…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

— Gautama Buddha

Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune…

— Edward Dowden

“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

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you…

— Lynn Culbreath Noel

Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

— Maya Angelou

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

Don't be afraid to be great, every big river starts as a small stream, every tall tree originates as a short seed, every big…

— Joshua Neal Hartry

Under various names, I have praised only you, rivers! You are milk and honey and love and death and dance. From a spring in…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“The river - with the sunlight flashing from its dancing wavelets, gilding gold the grey-green beech-trunks, glinting through the dark, cool wood paths, chasing…

— Jerome K. Jerome

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and,…

— Benjamin Hoff

In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one.

— Yosa Buson