Rivers in England
- River Derwent, Derbyshire
- River Derwent, North East England on the border between County Durham and Northumberland
- River Derwent, Cumbria in the Lake District
- River Derwent, Yorkshire in Yorkshire
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Famous quotes containing the words rivers in, rivers and/or england:
“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”
—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)
“An illiterate king is a crowned ass.”
—Medieval English proverb.
Said by the chronicler William of Malmesbury to have been much used by King Henry I of England (1068-1135)