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I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.

Willy Ley

Ideas

Rivers

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.

John Joly

Past

Rivers

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

Jim Gerlach

Rivers

Sea

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Love

Laws

Rivers

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

George William Curtis