Ohio River Valley

Famous quotes containing the words ohio, river and/or valley:

    “All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,—is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
    For there the mystical brotherhood
    Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
    And river and stream work out their will....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
    As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet;”
    —Thomas Moore (1779–1852)