|
8218bd5
|
That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back--' 'I hate that.' King Midas & Lit
|
|
midas
rivers
|
Rick Riordan |
|
a65b741
|
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.
|
|
time
rivers
|
Caleb Carr |
|
19b9837
|
When Jordan was a baby he sat on top of me much as a fly rests on a hill of dung. And I nourished him as a hill of dung nourishes a fly, and when he had eaten his fill he left me. Jordan... I should have named him after a stagnant pond and then I could have kept him, but I named him after a river and in the flood-tide he slipped away.
|
|
rivers
mothers
children
|
Jeanette Winterson |
|
fccc936
|
The Carmel is a lovely little river. It isn't very long but in its course it has everything a river should have. It rises in the mountains, and tumbles down a while, runs through shallows, is damned to make a lake, spills over the dam, crackles among round boulders, wanders lazily under sycamores, spills into pools where trout live, drops in against banks where crayfish live. In the winter it becomes a torrent, a mean little fierce river, and in the summer it is a place for children to wade in and for fishermen to wander in. Frogs blink from its banks and the deep ferns grow beside it. Deer and foxes come to drink from it, secretly in the morning and evening, and now and then a mountain lion crouched flat laps its water. The farms of the rich little valley back up to the river and take its water for the orchards and the vegetables. The quail call beside it and the wild doves come whistling in at dusk. Raccoons pace its edges looking for frogs. It's everything a river should be.
|
|
rivers
|
John Steinbeck |
|
ffa0ddb
|
"The river loved to tell everybody (everybody being the sky, the wind, the few trees that grew around there, birds, deer and even the stars if you can believe that) what a great river it was. "I come roaring from the earth and return roaring to the earth. I am the master of my waters. I am the mother and father of myself. I don't need a single drop of rain. Look at my smooth strong white muscles. I am my own future!"
|
|
natural-beauty
rivers
river
|
Richard Brautigan |
|
1815a85
|
"The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he shatter her? "What has this god of yours ever really done for you?" She stood very still for a long moment, her back to him. "Everything."
|
|
quote
a-voice-in-the-wind
a-voice-in-the-wind-quote
francine
francine-rivers
francine-rivers-quote
the
in
rivers
wind
voice
|
Francine Rivers |
|
054b07d
|
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
|
|
quote
a-voice-in-the-wind
a-voice-in-the-wind-quote
francine
francine-rivers
francine-rivers-quote
the
in
rivers
wind
voice
|
Francine Rivers |
|
d726a75
|
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he shatter her? 'What has this god of yours ever really done for you?' She stood very still for a long moment, her back to him. 'Everything.
|
|
a-voice-in-the-wind
a-voice-in-the-wind-quote
francine
francine-rivers
francine-rivers-quote
the
in
rivers
wind
voice
|
Francine Rivers |