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. On the birthday of their son Roarke, Gail decides to leave her daughter with her parents and take her family to raft down a wild river where she was a guide. — (Paul Newman for The Nature Conservancy), The least movement is of importance to all nature. — (Scott Russell Sanders, Writing from the Center), I have left almost to the last the magic of water, an element which owing to its changefulness of form and mood and color and to the vast range of its effects is ever the principal source of landscape beauty, and has like music a mysterious influence over the mind. — (Wallace Stegner), Dark brown is the river,Golden is the sand.It flows along for everWith trees on either hand.Green leaves a-floating,Castles of the foam,Boats of mine a-boating,Where will all come home?On goes the riverAnd out past the mill,Away down the valley,Away down the hill.Away down the river,A hundred miles or more,Other little childrenShall bring my boats ashore. — (Anonymous), Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do. Some portions of its channel will appear smooth, others rough, here a slope, there a vertical wall, here a sandy meadow, there a lake-bowl, and the young river speaks and sings all the smaller characters of the smooth slope and downy hush of meadow as faithfully as it sings the great precipices and rapid inclines, so that anyone who has learned the language of running water will see its character in the dark.
It is about a family on a whitewater rafting trip who encounter two violent criminals in the wilderness. — (Virgil, Eclogues), If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water. It's my world, and I don't want any other. (Greg Brown, "Spring Wind" in Dream Cafe), The song of the river ends not at her banks but in the hearts of those who have loved her. Go to the fountain-canyons of the Merced. Merriman, The Sowers), Many a time have I merely closed my eyes at the end of yet another troublesome day and soaked my bruised psyche in wild water, rivers remembered and rivers imagined. a substantial remnant of a once great endowment of wild and scenic rivers. All things are connected.Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. — (Andy Russell, The Life of a River), And this our life, exempt from public haunt,Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,Sermons in stones, and good in everything. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. — (Paul Hawken, The Ecology of Commerce), "What do you have when the last bear is gone? This we know. — (Joan Walsh Anglund, A Friend is Someone Who Likes You), Sit by a river. . which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it had uttered them with a voice. What he does to the web, he does to himself. — (Ovid), Water is the best of all things. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. Gail: Are you makin' a pass at me?Tom: I don't know, is that what it's called this far outside of Boston?Gail: This far inside of marriage, you mean.Tom: I think we're sufficiently alienated for this to qualify as a pass. As a result of Wade's actions, their entire plan is unraveling. . — (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek), There is no rushing a river. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. . But I wonderIf from its being kept forever underThe thoughts may not have risen that so keepThis new-built city from both work and sleep. . Heraclitus. — (Patrick McManus, The Huckleberry Murders), When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. . (Henry David Thoreau, Journals 1906, 1842 entry), Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. — (Duane Short, Illinois Forest Activist (January 17, 2006)), Mother Nature is our wild world. The river is the original forest highway. 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. — (Elliot Norse, Animal Extinctions), Gutta cavat lapidem. — (Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina), Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world. ", "NOW .
Lord! I believe it was the river. . Every river has, moreover, its influence over the people who pass their lives within sight of its waters. They are placid and mean. — (Henry David Thoreau), After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod.
— (Lao-Tzu, Chinese Philosopher (6th century B.C. I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards. — (David Brower, Foreword to Oregon Rivers by Larry Olson and John Daniel), You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Our planet is beset with a cancer which threatens our very existence and which will not respond to the kind of treatment that has been prescribed in the past. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished. "Only foolish people go," he said,"Down by the river. . Why does Terry wait until the "third" death to have it out with Wade? I think John Burroughs has it right. — (Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt), Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. — (Richard Bangs & Christian Kallen, River Gods), Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. On the first evening of their trip Gail talks to Tom about his work. Can we afford life itself? — (Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River), Water, water, water . This we know. Protect it from axes that hack.Then the Loraxand all of his friendsmay come back."(Dr. The cycle of the salmon's journey reminds us that all rivers flow to the same sea. . — (Tim Palmer, Lifelines), Rivers are magnets for the imagination, for conscious pondering and subconscious dreams, thrills, fears.
It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river. What do you got there, girl? "The River," corrected the Rat. — (Mohandas K. Gandhi as quoted in EF Schumacher's Small is Beautiful), How changed has the great Western continent become! — (Edward Abbey, Wilderness Reader), Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. A rainy day was a special day for me in a sense that no other kind of day was—a day when the ordinariness of things was suspended with ragged skies drifting to the color of pearl and dark streets turning to dark rivers of reflected light and even people transformed somehow as the rain drew them closer by giving them something to think about together, to take common shelter from, to complain of and joke about in ways that made them more like friends than it seemed to me they were on ordinary sunny days. — (Duane Short, Illinois Forest Activist), Ah . . — (Kathleen Dean Moore and Jonathan W. Moore, "The Gift of Salmon," Discover Magazine, May 2003), 'The north changes the world.
I have seen them push up creeks so small that they rammed themselves across the gravel. — (Robert Southly, The Cataract of Lodore)Read the Entire Poem, River, take me alongIn your sunshine,Sing me your songEver moving and winding and freeYou rolling old river,You changing old river,Let's you and me riverRun down to the sea. From the beautiful setting to the great ensemble cast and cinematography, The River Wild is a fun thriller and survival journey. It is my assurance of an orderly continuity in the great design of the universe. — (Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids from Hot Climates), A river does not just happen; it has a beginning and an end.
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