Top 976 Lakes And Rivers Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on December 5, 2024.
We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous.
There is much work to do to protect forests from over-timbering and oceans and lakes from over-fishing. We need to encourage and reward companies that create jobs to reduce the carbon footprints of offices and buildings and homes.
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.
We've got pictures from the Space Station going back 20 years. We can see the glaciers receding in the photography that we do. We can see the effects of lakes drying up and other things that are happening around the planet.
Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them
God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.
I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.
In some respects, I was almost a country boy. I ran around in streams and rivers and all that sort of thing.
Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'
The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.
When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood.
Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.
Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.
The war broke out, and for a number of years I lived in darkness, with the memory of the lakes, the trees and the skies of Sweden, until I returned in 1946 to spend two unforgettable years in the laboratory of Hugo Theorell.
It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university.
Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great lakes - very important and strategic.
At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.
More than anything there is the sense of scale: you can fly for hours and hours of Alaska and you look down and all you'll see is forests, lakes and snow-capped mountains, with no sign whatsoever of human beings.
Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth; sun, moon, and stars.
We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.
The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.
Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.
I am associated with Namami Goda Foundation, and I believe rivers are the pulse of our country.
The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms
We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.
We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.
What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.
Can't tell if I've got rivers or veins running under my skin, flowing out over the plains.
No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.
Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.
When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.
When a young person is sent 'up the river,' we need to remember that all rivers can change course.
O happy, golden age!
Not for that rivers ran
With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees
What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
I'm the grandson of immigrants who came across rivers and oceans to get here, some without documentation.
A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
I grew up in the old neighborhood of Beijing where you had a courtyard and trees. Actually, the whole of Beijing was a garden - the Forbidden City - and the lakes and gardens in the city center were all artificial.
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!
We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.
Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.
And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.
The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself how it is to cross rivers.
There are many names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.
A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.
In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.
Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.
