Rivers Quotes - Page 9

• Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being.

  Nicola Salvi

  Rain, Water, Heat

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• But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Wind, Water

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [401]

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• Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and play; civilizations emerged next to rivers in China, India, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. They sustain life and bring death and destruction. They are ferocious at times; gentle at times. They are placid and mean. They trigger conflict and delineate boundaries. Rivers are the stuff of metaphor and fable, painting and poetry. Rivers unite and divide - a thread that runs from source to exhausted release.

  Edward Gargan

  Running, Mean, Europe

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• The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

  William Beebe

  Men, Water, Mosquitoes

  William Beebe (1927). “The Log of the Sun”, p.139, Lulu.com

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• For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is falling: and I must be alone or with someone who cares for them as I do.

  David Fairchild

  Rain, Fall, Caring

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• It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is perfect.

  Richard Branson

  Beautiful, Adventure, Wind

  "Richard Branson's Tech Essentials" by Alexandra Wolfe, www.wsj.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly but already we had passed out of sight of La Muette. Astonished I cast a glance towards the river. I perceived the confluence of the Oise. And naming the principal bends of the river by the places nearest them, I cried, "Passy, St. Germain, St. Denis, Sevres!"

  Francois Laurent d'Arlandes

  Airplane, Fire, Sight

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• A Primrose by a river's brim
  A yellow primrose was to him
  And it was something more.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Yellow, Rose

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• We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Technology, Talking, Together

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this evanescent river of life wisely? With mindful awareness and love it becomes clear. You can fight against the river of change, or use its wisdom to teach you how to graciously move and create and flow with the full measure of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, praise and blame that make up every human incarnation.

  Jack Kornfield

  Moving, Fighting, Loss

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• The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species.

  John Culliney

  Ocean, Men, Water

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• Who, of men, can tell
  That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell
  To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail,
  The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale,
  The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones,
  The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones,
  Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet,
  If human souls did never kiss and greet?

  John Keats

  Sweet, Flower, Science

  'Endymion' (1818) bk. 1, l. 835

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• It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.

  Edith Wharton

  Rain, Character, Garden

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• How beautiful is the rain!
  After the dust and the heat,
  In the broad and fiery street,
  In the narrow lane,
  How beautiful is the rain!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Rain, Dust

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.85

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• Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river.

  Deepak Chopra

  Anxiety, Trying, Breathe

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• The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.

  Jim Wright

  Rain, Water, Survival

  Jim Wright (1966). “The Coming Water Famine”, New York : Coward-McCann

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• I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my veins That summer day.

  Theodore Roethke

  Summer, Rain, Water

  Theodore Roethke (2005). “Selected Poems”

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• Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.

  Richard Wilbur

  Rain, Water, Flattery

  Richard Wilbur, “A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the VILLa Sciarra”

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• It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.

  Wallace Stevens

  Rain, Fall, Winter

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.179, Vintage

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• You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

  Don Shula

  Travel, Distance, Years

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• Any river is really the summation of a whole valley. It shapes not only the land but the life and even the culture of that valley. To think of any river as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part of it.

  Hal Borland

  Rain, Thinking, Water

  "Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country".

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• I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul. Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. There is soul music, soul food, and soul love... People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit.

  Dalai Lama

  Distance, Ocean, Flower

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• The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as the basis of an abstract idea linking ourselves with the limitless mechanics of the universe.

  Geoffrey Jellicoe

  Rain, Ideas, Water

  Geoffrey Jellicoe (1993). “Geoffrey Jellicoe: the studies of a landscape designer over 80 years”, Antique Collectors Club Ltd

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• I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

  Martin Luther

  Change, War, Reality

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• So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Running, Travel, Past

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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