Julian Huxley Biologist “We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the classical Pantheon-Venus, Minerva, Mars, and the rest-as allegories. But, forgetting that they once carried as much sanctity as our saints and divinities, we refrain from applying the same reasoning to our own objects of worship.” Religious God Rivers ♥ 3
John Keats Poet “All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.” Sea Rivers Lakes ♥ 3
Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer “He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.” Sea Ignorance ♥ 3
Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet “The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.” Heart Rivers ♥ 3
Homer Poet “One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.” Travel Rivers Rushing ♥ 3
MO Mary Oliver Poet “Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising.” Dream Forever Rivers ♥ 3
MO Mary Oliver Poet “... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.” Thinking Running Rivers ♥ 3
Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist “Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.” Today Tree Rivers ♥ 3
Muhammad Ali Boxer, Activist “Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.” Water Rivers Lakes ♥ 3
Lord Byron Poet, Novelist “I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”.” Moon Sky Rivers ♥ 3
Louis Bacon Businessman “I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.” Land Forever Rivers ♥ 3
