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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.

— A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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