Boat Quote by Thomas McGuane

“A river so clear and transparent that the bright stones suspended within its currents could be seen with the naked eye, glittering with the…

— Kevin Fedarko

What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen.…

— James Dickey

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 flow of the river is ceaseless; and its water is never the same. The foam that floats in the pools Now gathering, now…

— Kamo no Chōmei

“As all the rivers of the world constantly pour their waters into the ocean, but the ocean’s grand, majestic nature remains undisturbed and unchanged,”

— Swami Vivekananda

. . . 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

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.

— Barten Holyday

I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations.…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

— Aidan Chambers

I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one…

— Miriam Makeba

Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

— Louise Erdrich

“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big…

— Joseph Conrad