Rivers
The many high mountain peaks on Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau are the source of many of Asia's great rivers. Some merge and become great rivers flowing into the sea, while others empty into inland lakes. Rivers from the southeast include the Yangtze and Yellow rivers and the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River known as the Tongtian River, Garmalequ, Shiquan, Yarlung Tsangpo and Nyang Rivers and Lancang rivers. To the north are rivers that begin in glaciers and flow into inland lakes or dry inland basins.
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Famous quotes containing the word rivers:
“We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
“It is easier to move rivers and mountains than to change a person’s basic nature.”
—Chinese proverb.
“No more shall the war cry sever,
Or the winding rivers be red:
They banish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of our dead!
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment Day:—
Love and tears for the Blue;
Tears and love for the Gray.”
—Francis Miles Finch (1827–1907)