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Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack

Roberta Flack is an iconic American singer born on February 10, 1937. Known for her distinctive voice and emotive performances, she has made significant contributions to soul, jazz, and pop music. Flack is recognized as one of the most influential artists in music history, with her career spanning the 1960s and beyond. more

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“We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also the best way to get there. A river knows better-:it has to do with how it dissipates the energy of its flow most efficiently; and how, in its bends, the sediment deposited soon turns into marshes and swampy islands, harboring all manner of interesting life, imparting charm and character to the whole waterway. I would defy you to find a river on this planet that prefers to run straight, unless it has been taught so by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.”

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Author:Thomas W. Horton
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“An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969
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“. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965
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“A Montana statue holds that a river has a right to overwhelm its banks and inundate its floodplain. Well, that's interesting, because it's not a right that we assign to the river. The river has earned it through centuries of deluging and shaping the floodplain, and the floodplain has a right to its rampaging river. They've earned their rights through a kind of reciprocal action.”

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Author:Daniel Kemmis
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“I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched. On the river the heat mirages danced with each other and then they danced through each other and then they joined hands and danced around each other. Eventually the water joined the river, and there was only one of us. I believe it was the river.”

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Book:A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
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“Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can we afford life itself? Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of our nation, and they deserve no answers as we finally move to restore and renew them. These questions answer themselves.”

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Author:Edmund Muskie
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