Great River - Rivers

Famous quotes containing the word rivers:

“It is easier to move rivers and mountains than to change a person’s basic nature.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)

“In the rivers north of the future.”
—Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)