World Rivers Day
World Rivers Day is a global celebration of the world's waterways, observed every last Sunday in September. Established in 2005, it highlights the many values of rivers and strives to increase public awareness while encouraging the improved stewardship of rivers around the world. World Rivers Day occurs annually on the last Sunday in September.
Read more about World Rivers Day: Promoting River Stewardship, United Nations Links, Origins of World Rivers Day
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“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
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—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
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Macbeth. She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.—
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Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.”
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