Herbert River/2010-2011 Queensland Floods

Famous quotes containing the words herbert, river and/or floods:

    “Light, joy, and leisure; but shall they persever?
    Echo Ever.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “The river knows the way to the sea;
    Without a pilot it runs and falls,
    Blessing all lands with its charity.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “the cold eternal shores
    That look sheer down
    To the dark tideless floods of Nothingness
    Where all who know may drown.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)