Lakes And Rivers Quotes

• The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the water. What is water, That pours silver, And can hold the sky?

  Hilda Conkling

  Rain, Lakes, Sky

  Hilda Conkling (1929). “Poems by a Little Girl”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. The heat of the sun's rays represents an immense amount of energy vastly in excess of waterpower...The sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land.

  Nikola Tesla

  Rivers, Lakes, Heat Of The Sun

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• The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Jobs, Ocean, Rivers

  Gaylord Nelson, Paul A. Wozniak, Susan M. Campbell (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.157, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers.

  Hilda Conkling

  Lakes, Rivers, World

  Hilda Conkling (1929). “Poems by a Little Girl”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

  Muhammad Ali

  Religious, Greatness, Lakes

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• If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

  Loren Eiseley

  Garden, Rivers, Lakes

  The Immense Journey "The Flow of the River" (1957)

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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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• A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

  Laura Gilpin

  Moving, Rain, Memorable

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• To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Spring, Fall, Rivers

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• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

  Norman Maclean

  Running, Fishing, Rivers

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Nature

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Nature, Stars, Flower

  "A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul: More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit". Book by Jack Canfield (p. 188), September 1, 2012.

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• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

  Thomas Fuller

  Ocean, Sea, Oil And Water

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1732.

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• Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

  Blaise Pascal

  Moving, Rivers, Water

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Beauty, Beautiful, Beach

  "The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, April, 1943.

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• One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.

  John Muir

  Morning, Lakes, Rivers

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.521, e-artnow

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• People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Travel, Stars, Fall

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• I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memorable, Lakes, Land

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• Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.

  Candice S. Miller

  Lakes, Rivers, People

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• Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Nature, Men, Lakes

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• Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can we afford life itself? Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of our nation, and they deserve no answers as we finally move to restore and renew them. These questions answer themselves.

  Edmund Muskie

  Ocean, Moving, Lakes

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• I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly when the concern for the environment appears far more intense than the concern for the human family.

  Robert Sirico

  Rain, Animal, Lakes

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• Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes, since they are not phenomena confined to certain localities only, but forms and phases of the life in nature universally dispersed. The countless shoals which annually coast the shores of Europe and America are not so interesting to the student of nature as the more fertile law itselffrom which it results that they may be found in water in so many places, in greater or lesser numbers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Lakes, Europe And America

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes, and rivers, or on the land. Because the physical and chemical properties of water are well suited to the requirements of life, it is no accident that life is a water-based phenomenon.

  Robert E. Lee

  Rain, Ocean, Lakes

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• Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish them dry.

  Sharon Gannon

  Ocean, Lakes, Sea

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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