Rivers Quotes - Page 16

• Away, away, from men and towns,
  To the wild wood and the downs, -
  To the silent wilderness,
  Where the soul need not repress
  Its music.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Soul, Needs

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1872). “A Selection from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited with a Memoir by Mathilde Blind”, p.84

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• Go, little book, and wish to all
  Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall,
  A bin of wine, a spice of wit,
  A house with lawns enclosing it,
  A living river by the door,
  A nightingale in the sycamore!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Flower, Book, Wine

  'Underwoods' (1887) 'Envoy'.

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• Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine, Blood, Names

  "Wine Buyers Guide".

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• The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

  Richard Dawkins

  Dna, Titles, Tissues

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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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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• 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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• American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door. Until then, it is merely someone elses problem and a problem that we fool ourselves into thinking won't reach us.

  Charley Reese

  Thinking, Doors, Water

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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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• Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of coastal cities will be abandoned. The rice growing river deltas of Asia will be under water. There will be hundreds of millions of rising-sea refuges. The word that comes to mind is chaos. If we cannot mobilize to save the Greenland ice sheet; we probably cannot save civilization as we know it.

  Lester R. Brown

  Ice, Sea, Civilization

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• This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.

  Herodotus

  Kings, Science, Egypt

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• When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects which you could reduce to complete and well-drawn figures.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Wall, Rocks

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• How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Sea, Proud

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• Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Thoughtful, Night

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• During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end.

  Harriet Doerr

  Life, Littles, Way

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• It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things running right. We're bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below. With that fact in mind, people like me make up all these rules to give us the illusion that we are in charge. I need to say to myself, they're not needed, hon. Just take in the buggy pleasures. Be kind to the others, grab the fleck of riverweed, notice how beautifully your bug legs scull.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational, Running, Struggle

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• Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river's pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through you. Freshness and a deep joy are signs of the current.

  Coleman Barks

  Inspirational, Moving, Joy

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• But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.

  Rupert Brooke

  Space, Water, Heaven

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.45, Delphi Classics

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• There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Dark, Clouds, Heaven

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1045, Wordsworth Editions

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• Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air.

  Charles Dickens

  Song, Nature, Air

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.37

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• A long time ago, there were lovers that lived on the opposite ends of a river. They promised to meet when the camellia flowers bloomed. But it rained so much the boat couldn't cross the river. So the two couldn't meet, even though the camellia flowers had all bloomed. Lets meet again. Before the camellia flowers wilt.

  John the Apostle

  Drama, Flower, Opposites

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• I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers!

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Crazy, Epic

  "Gwyneth Paltrow: Botox Made Me Look ‘Crazy’ Like Joan Rivers" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

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• You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

  Wendell Berry

  Environmental, Affirmation, Plant

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• We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

  Mary Daly

  Science, Environmental, Looks

  Mary Daly (1973). “Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

  Satish Kumar

  Nature, Ocean, Sunshine

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• The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.

  Hermann Hesse

  Depth, Taught, Environment

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.80, Om Books International

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