River
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Where the north wind
meets the sea
there's a river
full of memory
Sleep my darling, safe and sound
for in this river, all is found
—Kristen Anderson-Lopez
& Robert Lopez
(via Kacey Musgraves)
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Picture yourself in a boat on a river
with tangerine trees
and marmalade skies
―Beatles
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riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
―Finnegans Wake
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One never steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and one is not the same person.
―Heraclitus
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The only comfort is
the moving of the river.
―Sarah McLachlan
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Well, I
go to the river to soothe my mind
ponder over the crazy days
of my life
just sit and watch the river flow
―Natalie Merchant
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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
—Huckleberry Finn
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I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
—Langston Hughes
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The river was a boundary between States, separating a southern one from a northern one, separating danger from safety.
—Toni Morrison
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The river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere.
—Wendell Berry
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
—Winnie-the-Pooh
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Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
—Norman Maclean
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Poem: Fishing on the Susquehanna in July
Poem: The Sandhill Cranes of Nebraska