Rivers
- In Canada
- Grand River (Ontario)
- The Ottawa River was formerly known as the "Grand River"
- In the United States
- Grand River (Colorado), historical name (1836-1921) of the Colorado River above the confluence with the Green River
- Grand River (Michigan)
- Grand River (Ohio)
- Grand River (Oklahoma)
- Grand River (Wisconsin)
- Grand River (Missouri) in Iowa and Missouri
- Grand River (South Dakota) in North and South Dakota
- Lower Grand River in Louisiana
- The southermost portion of the Neosho River in Oklahoma is also known as the "Grand River"
- Rio Grande in U.S. and Mexico. "Rio Grande" means "Grand River" in Spanish.
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Famous quotes containing the word rivers:
“I remember once dreaming of pushing a canoe up the rivers of Maine, and that, when I had got so high that the channels were dry, I kept on through the ravines and gorges, nearly as well as before, by pushing a little harder, and now it seemed to me that my dream was partially realized.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Conrad Kent Rivers (1933–1968)