“I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.” KnowsYearsMadeHappensRunningFiveStageFrontsHappeningsRiversDryFive YearsSweatPouringMicrophones Author:Nickolas Ashford
“even when nothing is happening, nothing stands still. ... I am not a rock, but a river; people deceive themselves by seeing me as a rock. Or is it I who deceive them and pretend that I am a rock when I am a river?” PeopleStillsSelfSeeingRocksHappeningsRiversDeceiving Author:Nina Berberova
“For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is simply one all-inclusive Happening, in which your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shining far out in space. There is no question of submitting or accepting or going with it, for what happens in and as you is no different from what happens as it.” WayDifferentSelfHappensUniverseStarsSpaceAcceptingAliveFateHappeningsRiversShiningFree WillSensationsDistinguished Author:Alan Watts
“The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.” WayStatesMomentsTurnsUnitedUnited StatesSeaDyingGoes OnHappeningsRainRiversFishesForestsSoilPoisoningPesticides Author:W. S. Merwin
“I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just do it.” WritingBookLanguageSecretPracticeTeachingHappeningsRiversDirectConnectingJust Do It Author:Natalie Goldberg
“The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year after year, these things been happening.” PeopleYearsHas BeensBigsBlackHappeningsRiversBlack PeopleMississippi Author:Fannie Lou Hamer