Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all things? Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
If you're not beside a real river, close your eyes, and sit down beside an imaginary one, a river where you feel comfortable and safe. Know that the water has wisdom, in its motion through the world, as much wisdom as any of us have. Picture yourself as the water. We are liquid; we innately share water's wisdom. —Eric Alan, "Meditation Draws Its Power From the Water," The Oregonian (September 11, 2005)
Sit by a river. Find peace and meaning in the rhythm of the lifeblood of the Earth. —anon
The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare to let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure. —Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Any river is really the summation of the whole valley. To think of it as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part. — Hal Borland, This Hill, This Valley
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt—it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else. —Hal Boyle
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. —Leonardo da Vinci
The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. —Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
Rivers have what man most respects and longs for in his own life—a capacity for renewal and replenishment, continual energy, creativity, cleansing. —John Kauffman, A Look At Our North Atlantic Rivers
A river sings a holy song conveying the mysterious truth that we are a river, and if we are ignorant of this natural law, we are lost. —Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
Wonderful how completely everything in wild nature fits into us, as if truly part and parent of us. The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and; tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love. — John Muir, Mountain Thoughts
Rivers are magnets for the imagination, for conscious pondering and subconscious dreams, thrills, fears. People stare into the moving water, captivated, as they are when gazing into a fire. What is it that draws and holds us? The rivers' reflections of our lives and experiences are endless. — Tim Palmer, Lifelines
Streams represent constant rebirth. The water flows in, forever new, yet forever the same; they complete a journey from beginning to end, and then they embark on the journey again. — Tim Palmer, Lifelines
Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wanderlust, mimicked our arteries, and charmed our imaginations in a way the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could. — Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids from Hot Climates
River, take me along
In your sunshine,
Sing me your song
Ever moving and winding and free
You rolling old river,
You changing old river,
Let's you and me river
Run down to the sea.
-Bill Staines, River (Song)
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Who hears the rippling of rivers will not utterly despair of anything. — Henry David Thoreau
I was born upon thy bank, river,
My blood flows in thy stream,
And thou meanderest forever,
At the bottom of my dream.
-Henry David Thoreau, Journals 1906, 1842 entry
A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own, and is as full of good fellowship as a sugar-maple is of sap. It can talk in various tones, loud or low, and of many subjects grave and gay . . . For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside of the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river. — Henry van Dyke, Little Rivers
Hi yih, yippity-yap, merrily I flow, O I may be an old foul river but I have plenty of go. -Stevie Smith (1902-1971), British poet, novelist. The River God (l. 9-10)
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else. -Hal Boyle
Rivers are magnets for the imagination, for conscious pondering and subconscious dreams, thrills, fears. People stare into the moving water, captivated, as they are when gazing into a fire. What is it that draws and holds us? The rivers' reflections of our lives and experiences are endless . . . -Tim Palmer, Lifelines
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -William Shakespeare, Henry VI, II, III, 1
The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare to let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure. -Richard Bach
Expect poison from the standing water. -William Blake
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. -Heraclitus of Ephesus
Ideas can no more flow backward than can the river. -Victor Hugo
It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. -Abraham Lincoln. Reply to National Union League, June 9, 1864.
A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
A river sings a holy song conveying the mysterious truth that we are a river, and if we are ignorant of this natural law, we are lost. -Thomas Moore -from The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside of the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river. -Henry Van Dyke
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it. —Lao-Tzu,Another Interpretation
Water flows humbly to the lowest level. Nothing is weaker than water, yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, nothing surpasses it. — Lao-Tzu
A man of wisdom delights in water. — Confucius
By means of water, we give life to everything. -Koran, Chapter 21, verse 30
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third
thing that makes water and nobody knows what that is.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), Pansies, 1929
In every glass of water we drink, some of the water has already passed through fishes, trees, bacteria, worms in the soil, and many other organisms, including people...Living systems cleanse water and make it fit, among other things, for human consumption.
Elliot A. Norse in R.J. Hoage, ed., Animal Extinctions, 1985
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain. -Michael McClary.
When oxygen and hydrogen find one another, their joining produces fiery passion. Out of this fire, water is born. Quaint Victorian chemistry gives us an image of one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms in a fixed molecule that bounces around from place to place. The reality of water is not so orderly. The hydrogen atoms are not owned by any particular oxygen atom. Water is a substance very much in love with itself, and the atoms connect in webs and clusters where oxygen shares around the hydrogen atoms freely, a fluid situation indeed. -Ian D. Anderson, Ian Lurking Bear
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountains and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. —John Lubbock
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