Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer “They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.” Water Land Rivers ♥ 3
Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer “One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.” Years Book Rivers ♥ 3
William Wordsworth Poet “A Primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him And it was something more.” Flower Rivers ♥ 3
WS Wilbur Smith Author “History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.” Today Rivers ♥ 3
Wallace Stevens Poet “The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.” Spring Sky Rivers ♥ 3
WC William C. Bryant Poet “Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice Is that thou utterest while all else is still-- The ancient voice that, centuries ago, Sounded between thy hills, while Rome was yet A weedy solitude by Tiber's stream!” Voice Rivers Rome ♥ 3
William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright “Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.” Hands Garden Rivers ♥ 3
William Least Heat-Moon Author “I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.” Personality Travel Rivers ♥ 3
William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet “There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.” Names Rivers Fingers ♥ 3
William Wordsworth Poet “I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.” Nature Lonely Rivers ♥ 3
Vaclav Havel Politician, Playwright “By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole.” Responsibility Rivers Taking Responsibility ♥ 3
Van Morrison Singer-Songwriter “I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.” Thinking Rocks Rivers ♥ 3
