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I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.Collection: Rivers
The human being is to be respected and defended, not protected like a bird or a river.Collection: Rivers
Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'Collection: Rivers
You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then.Collection: Rivers
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.Collection: Rivers
You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and noting the course of the currents.Collection: Rivers
We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.Collection: Rivers
A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.Collection: Rivers
A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.Collection: Rivers
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.Collection: Rivers
The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds.Collection: Rivers
She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.Collection: Rivers
There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.Collection: Rivers
Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.Collection: Rivers
Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river (in deeper or shallower degree). 'Entire sanctification' is the river in fullest flow.Collection: Rivers
God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.Collection: Rivers
If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.Collection: Rivers
The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.Collection: Rivers
Reason and faith are both banks of the same river.Collection: Rivers
The river is now. This moment. This breath between us. The space between your heartbeats. The moment before you blink. The instant a thought flashes through your mind. It is everything that is around us. Life. Energy. Flowing, endlessly flowing, carrying you from then...to now...to tomorrow. Listen: you can hear the music of it. Of the passage of time.Collection: Rivers
In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.Collection: Rivers
The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it already is, and flows steadily forth from up the canyon, a fountain of rumors from regions known to it and not to me.Collection: Rivers
There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you drag a fish up out of the river for your supper if you feel the yank of the hook in your own cheek? I get that part. We can't feel for everyone and everything all the time. We'd die of fear or sorrow a hundred times a day. The thing is, it's gotten so we flick the switch off like it's nothing. And, more often than not, we forget to turn it back on.Collection: Rivers
...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.Collection: Rivers
...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.Collection: Rivers
Let us not forget the East Bank of the (River) Jordan, where seventy per cent of the inhabitants belong to the Palestinian nation.Collection: Rivers
We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.Collection: Rivers
In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.Collection: Rivers
Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.Collection: Rivers
Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.Collection: Rivers
We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous.Collection: Rivers
The river that flows in you also flows in me.Collection: Rivers
If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that intellect in its march has spared one vestige of the ancient forest for me to die by.Collection: Rivers
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.Collection: Rivers
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.Collection: Rivers
Don't push the river. Just go with it.Collection: Rivers
A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but the soul of its people.Collection: Rivers
I live in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER.Collection: Rivers
Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.Collection: Rivers
I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.Collection: Rivers
It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.Collection: Rivers
...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.Collection: Rivers
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.Collection: Rivers
There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.Collection: Rivers
I personally feel that parachute files give a more realistic impression of an insect to the fish that views the fly, since the hackles are in the same position as the insect's legs, and when tied with brightly colored hackles, these flies are easier to see on the float. A final advantage is that in rough water, a parachute-hackled dry fly will float longer and better than a conventional oneCollection: Rivers
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.Collection: Rivers
Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience.Collection: Rivers
Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.Collection: Rivers
Here is a tree rooted in African soil, nourished with waters from the rivers of Afrika. Come and sit under its shade and become, with us, the leaves of the same branch and the branches of the same treeCollection: Rivers