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• And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.

  Patrick Ness

  Knowing, Waiting, Sitting

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Forget all you know or think you know; Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity.

  Wayland Drew

  Spiritual, Thinking, Inward

  Wayland Drew (1988). “Willow: a novel”, Del Rey

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• We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Science, Environmental, Earth

  Attributed in A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations, ed. Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell (1992)

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• Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Animal, Tree, Mountain

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• The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Flower, Autumn, Cutting

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• Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Bridges, People

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)”, p.102, Random House

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• Before I found Minerva, I'd passed nights with more than my share of women." Thorne groaned. Don't. Just don't. "I've passed time with duchesses and farm girls, and it doesn't matter whether their skirts are silk or homespun. Once you get them bare--" Thorne drew up short. "If you start in on rivers of silk and alabaster orbs, I will have to hit you.

  Tessa Dare

  Girl, Night, Matter

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• A river of words flowed between us.

  Ernest Cline

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• And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate—and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live like a mighty river. And as the old Greeks said: live as though all your ancestors were living again through you.

  Ted Hughes

  Real, People, Greek

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• Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river.

  Danielle Steel

  People, Forever, Flow

  Danielle Steel (2009). “The Gift”, p.109, Random House

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• While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp. 'Incredible,' Jason said. 'These are really good brownies.' 'That's your only comment?' Piper demanded. He looked surprised. 'What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--' 'I know,' Frank said, his mouth full. 'Try them with Ester's peach preserves.' 'That,' Hazel said, 'is incredibly disgusting.' 'Pass me the jar, man,' Jason said. Hazel and Piper exchanged a look of total exasperation. Boys.

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Men, Training

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• Time, Kate was learning, was like a river. You might put up obstacles, even divert it briefly, but the river had a will of it's own. It wanted to flow a certain way. You had to force it to change. You had to be willing to sacrifice.

  John Stephens

  Sacrifice, Might, Way

  John Stephens (2011). “The Emerald Atlas”, p.332, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Dripping water hollows out a stone

  Ovid

  Water, Environmental, Stones

  'Epistulae Ex Ponto' bk. 4, no. 10, l. 5.

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• The past leaders of our movement left us a clear message to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the River Jordan for future generations, for the mass aliya, and for the Jewish people, all of whom will be gathered into this country.

  Yitzhak Shamir

  Country, Past, Israel

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• It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort of inspiration that you see from so many hundreds of people who tackle tasks that are impossible and never give up and succeed.

  Jane Goodall

  Success, Giving Up, Inspiration

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• Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

  Saint Augustine

  Nature, Stars, Ocean

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• We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

  John Wesley Powell

  Running, Wall, Distance

  John Wesley Powell (2003). “The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons”, p.268, Penguin

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• We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of previously settled land.

  David Foreman

  Insecure, Land, Tears

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• Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

  Indira Gandhi

  Women, Water, Democracy

  Indira Gandhi (1975). “India: The Speeches and Reminiscences of Indira Gandhi”

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• We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers.

  John Green

  Hipster, Play, Long

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• If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk.

  Kevin Rudd

  Fire, Risk, Dying

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• The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets.

  Qurratulain Hyder

  Song, Lonely, Sunset

  Qurratulain Hyder (2010). “Fireflies in the Mist”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

  Matthew of Edessa

  War, Fighting, Blood

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• If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Helping Others, Men

  "The Discourse Collection. Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipata". Book by John D. Ireland, www.accesstoinsight.org. 1995.

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