Pastoral Resources

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

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.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest.

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.