"Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained."
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"A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool."
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"The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little."
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"Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town."
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"We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the classical Pantheon-Venus, Minerva, Mars, and the rest-as allegories. But, forgetting that they once carried as much sanctity as our saints and divinities, we refrain from applying the same reasoning to our own objects of worship."
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"All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells."
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"The river is everywhere."
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"One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way."
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"Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising."
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"... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores."
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"Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River."
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"He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea."
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"Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion."
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"I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”."
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"I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands."
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"The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul."
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