Quote by Thomas Sowell

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity;…

— John Muir

“How we devour one another's culture, do so without shame--ideas like water, free flowing and able to take on other forms. Able to flood…

— J. Andrew Schrecker

“People tend to be like flowing water; taking the path of least resistance, what they often forget is that water can cut through mountains.”

— E.S. Quinton

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

— Charles Kuralt

“The city divided by the river is further divided by racial and lingual differences.”

— Nelson Algren

“Now I look at artificial boundaries—lines that can stop no current of air or drought or polluted river—and mourn the violence lavished on defending…

— Gloria Steinem

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity;…

— John Muir

Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or…

— Bram Stoker

“The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled land with people of our…

— Florence Luscomb

“Civilization proceeds in a direction opposite from everything mountains represent: starvation, hardship, coldness, the constant scramble to survive...People used to avoid mountains, but now…

— Bruce Barcott

“A steady, tiny stream of water trickles down. I'm always amazed by the insignificance of a river's beginning. Traveling upriver is like going back…

— Christa Conklin