Age Quote by Torquato Tasso

“From Eden’s bowers the full-fed rivers flow, To guide the outcasts to the land of woe: Our Earth one little toiling streamlet yields. To…

— George MacDonald

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

— Bible

I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in…

— Theodore Roethke

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

— Anonymous

Rivers don't drink their own water. Trees don't eat their own fruit. - Rule of Nature

— Ritu Ghatourey

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but…

— William Stafford

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

— Edwin Newman

But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but…

— Charles Dickens

“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 time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“The greenest grass he’d ever seen—a forest of long, soft blades—ran down to the bank. The water was clear and swift as it flowed…

— Blake Crouch

Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.

— Bob Goff