Rivers Quotes - Page 2

• My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

  Langston Hughes

  Soul, Environmental, Veins

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.36, University of Missouri Press

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• We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Rain, Cycle Of Life, Water Of Life

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• For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.

  Sandra Postel

  Rain, Science, Thinking

  Sandra Postel (2014). “The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity”, p.184, Routledge

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• Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.

  Charles Kuralt

  Running, Home, Memorable

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• A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Heart, Sea, Fishing

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• Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Sweet, Space

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• Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.
  [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]

  Blaise Pascal

  Moving, Wish, Portents

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• The river knows the way to the sea:
  Without a pilot it runs and falls,
  Blessing all lands with its charity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Fall, Blessing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.93, Delphi Classics

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• Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.

  Willy Ley

  Ideas, Source, Just One

  Willy Ley (1944). “Rockets, Missiles, and Men in Space”

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• A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.

  Garth Brooks

  Dream, Flow, Catchy

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• The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Rain, Garden

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2009). “The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks”

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• I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

  Wallace Stegner

  Heart, Glasses, Rocks

  Wallace Stegner (2015). “The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West”, p.35, Vintage

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• The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.

  Shozo Tanaka

  Memorable, Heart, Water

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• The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven... in the ponds broken off from the sky. . .

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sky, Broken, Bird

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2004). “Sonnets to Orpheus”, p.32, Shambhala Publications

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• It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Environmental, Way, Pleasant

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2215, Delphi Classics

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• Reason and faith are both banks of the same river.

  Domenico Cieri

  Reason

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• You must take care of the body. Body is like a boat. Life is like a river. On this side is the world; on the other side is God. And so, to reach the other side, that is to reach God, you must maintain this boat carefully. You can keep the boat for any length of time in the water; there is no danger. But if the water comes into the boat, then there is danger.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Water, Life Is Like, World

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• I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Blood, Forever

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.5, Princeton University Press

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• Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.

  Oren Lyons

  Diversity, Lacrosse, Brotherhood

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• For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Beach, Ocean

  E. E. Cummings, “Maggie And Milly And Molly And May”

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• The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Knowing, Water, Together

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.10

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• The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land.

  Lynn Culbreath Noel

  Rain, Moving, Lakes

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• Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

  Herman Melville

  Rain, Men, Feet

  Herman Melville (2015). “Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.5, Powell Publications, LLC

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• To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Rain, Water, Soul

  Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA

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• Days and rivers are the same; they both flow to the unknown oceans!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Flow

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