Ancient Quote by William C. Bryant

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

— Hermann Hesse

Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees.

— John Keats

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

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the…

— George Eliot

“Word after word, minute after minute I chanted in a language more ancient than man, more difficult than women, more lengthy than a river.”

— Craig Halloran

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

— Norman Maclean

O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice! O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths! O lavish, brown, parturient…

— Walt Whitman

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We sat on the bank and the river went by. As always, it was making sounds to itself, and now it made sounds to…

— Norman Maclean

“Such a voice this man has. The way he sounds isn't a sound at all. It's a river into which words are thrown.”

— Laura Bynum

Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.

— William Wordsworth

“Before the Battle: Music of whispering trees Hushed by the broad-winged breeze Where shaken water gleams; And evening radiance falling With reedy bird-notes calling.…

— Siegfried Sassoon