Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher “The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.” Spring Rivers Trust ♥ 3
HJ Henry James Author “She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.” Fiction Rivers Blue ♥ 3
Heraclitus Philosopher “All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river” Rivers All Things ♥ 3
James Russell Lowell Poet, Essayist “The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.” Men Heaven Rivers ♥ 3
James Russell Lowell Poet, Essayist “I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.” Love Peace Rivers ♥ 3
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poet, Educator “O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide. O lovely river Yvette! O darling stream! on balanced wings The wood-birds sang the chansonnette That here a wandering poet sings.” Rivers Wings Bird ♥ 3
Heraclitus Philosopher “Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.” Progress Rivers Steps ♥ 3
Heraclitus Philosopher “Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.” Water Rivers Flow ♥ 3
Heraclitus Philosopher “No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.” Rivers Steps Substance ♥ 3
Heraclitus Philosopher “The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.” Giving Feet Rivers ♥ 3
Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer “The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.” Thinking Men Rivers ♥ 3
