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“Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.”

Years Littles Two House Names Four Mouths Rivers Miles Village Four Years Grandfather

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending a little more to the right or left.”

Thinking Giving Littles Different Left Interest Study Subjects Months Highest Rivers Edges Angle Bending Motifs Plentiful Different Angles

Author:Paul Cezanne

“The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.”

Source: Silent Spring

“Los Angeles was a place after my own heart. The people were hospitable. The country had the same attraction for me that it had for the Indians who originally chose this spot as their place to live. The Los Angeles River was a beautiful, limpid little stream, with willows on its banks. It was so attractive to me that it at once became something about which my whole scheme of life was woven, I loved it so much.”

People Heart Littles Country Whole Beautiful My Own Rivers Attraction Spots Attractive Streams Los Angeles Schemes Woven Places To Live

Author:William Mulholland

“With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course of their lives resembles a little brook, whereas with the genius it is more like a mighty river into which all the little rivulets flow from afar; that is to say, the universal comprehension of genius vibrates to no experience in which all the individual moments have not been gathered up and stored.”

Men Littles Moments Courses Individual United Genius Ordinary Flow Rivers Universal Originals Continuity Comprehension Brooks Multiplicity Afar Ordinary Man Vibrate Discrete

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character

“The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.”

Source: Hilaire Belloc: An Anthology of His Prose and Verse