Rivers And Lakes Quotes

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

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Nature, Men, Lakes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of lakes, rivers and bays where all forms of life have been smothered by untreated wastes, and oceans which no longer provide us with food.

  Edmund Muskie

  Cancer, Ocean, Reality

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Morning, Lakes

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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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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• 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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• 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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• Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed beside the basketball. If you were to reduce the Earth to the size of a basketball, all the fresh surface water on the planet - all those rivers and lakes and ponds and streams - would fit inside that one tiny sesame seed. Add a second sesame seed; now you have all the usable underground water as well. Is fresh water a scarce resource?

  William Ashworth

  Basketball, Rivers, Lakes

  William Ashworth (1995). “The economy of nature: rethinking the connections between ecology and economics”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere;
  Let us take long walks in the open air...
  Let us bathe in the rivers and lakes...
  Let us indulge in games...
  Let us be more simple: simple and true in our gestures, in our words,
  and simple and true in our minds above all. Let us be ourselves.

  Robert Linssen

  Simple, Garden, Lakes

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• The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Lakes, Rivers

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• A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes, sea shores and deserts, this is where we humans have the privilege to live, the latest, most advanced newcomers in evolution. What an immense, incredible responsibility we have to be a right, positive element in the further evolution of that planet. That is the big question before us in the new century and millennium.

  Robert Muller

  Ocean, Responsibility, Years

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