“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.” MayArtEndsEarthUsedOrderFightingHeavenSunFourReturnNeededVictoryBattleMoonFlowRiversDirectSeasonsMethodSecureStreamsMartial ArtsTacticsJoiningPassing AwayHeaven And EarthUnendingIndirectFour Seasons Book:The Art of War Source: The Art of War
“The I-95 bridges were built in the early 1960s and are now more than 50 years old. The same vintage as the I-35 bridge that collapsed in Minnesota back in 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The antiquated Skagit River Bridge in Washington state that collapsed last May after a truck hit one of the trusses was even older. And it's not just bridges. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, 32 percent of the major roads in America are now in poor condition and in need of major repairs.” PeopleNeedsYearsMayStatesLastsAmericaPoorConditionsMajorsPercentBuiltRiversKillingBridgesEngineersTruck1960sVintageAmerican SocietyMinnesotaCivil EngineerWashington State Author:Ed Rendell
“O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's observatory--whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.” IfsMaySeemsBuildingSolitudeRiversLet MeTheeClimbsLeapBellsBeesCrystalsDeerSlopesSteepDellFoxgloves Book:Keats: 'Ode to a Nightingale' and Other Poems Source: Keats: 'Ode to a Nightingale' and Other Poems
“So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.” MayHeavenClearGraceConscienceRiversFoam Author:Dante Alighieri
“However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not conform with the general plan.” IfsMayPlansSacrificeTreeRiversCloudsHillsColourConformExquisite Author:Walter J. Phillips
“No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one State, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people.” PeopleMenShouldMayStatesUseAmericaWaterIndustryFlowRiversEnvironmentalOne ManSewersRivers And WaterWater Pollution Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.” MenMayHomeSeaRiversCaughtFishesBoatLakesFishingAlleysBraggingFishermanFly FishingAnglingGreat FishingFunny FishingCatching Fish Author:Ann Landers
“In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.” MayEndsLastsPastSeaReturnOceanRiversMysteriousStreamsOrigin Of LifeTransmutation Book:The Sea Around Us Source: The Sea Around Us