Famous quotes containing the words river and/or rock:
“This spirit it was which so early carried the French to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi on the north, and the Spaniard to the same river on the south. It was long before our frontiers reached their settlements in the West, and a voyageur or coureur de bois is still our conductor there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In the black of desire
we rock and grunt, grunt and
shine”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)