Portal:Rivers/Selected quote

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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god—sullen, untamed and intractable.
T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets," in The Dry Salvages

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A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Speaking About the Delaware River, 1931

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Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their un-improvable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.
David Brower, Foreword to Oregon Rivers, 1997

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Rivers know this: There is no hurry, we shall get there some day.

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