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“I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.”

People Want Life Giving Water Tree Conditions Love You Flower Rivers Thirsty Love You Like I Love You Like

Author:Paulo Coelho

“All things are connected, like the blood that runs in your family "The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father." 1854 The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give to any brother.”

Giving Children Running Father Voice Water Kindness Blood Brother All Things Rivers Our Children Connected Our Family Thirst Quench

Author:Chief Seattle

“Hark, I hear a robin calling! List, the wind is from the south! And the orchard-bloom is falling Sweet as kisses on the mouth. In the dreamy vale of beeches Fair and faint is woven mist, And the river's orient reaches Are the palest amethyst. Every limpid brook is singing Of the lure of April days; Every piney glen is ringing With the maddest roundelays. Come and let us seek together Springtime lore of daffodils, Giving to the golden weather Greeting on the sun-warm hills.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. M. Montgomery (Illustrated)

“Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of nature; for they made the Oceanus and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the Gods as being by water, to which they give the name of Styx; for what is oldest is most honourable, and the most honourable thing is that by which one swears”

Thinking Giving Firsts Long Made Names Parent Water Views Generations Creation Rain Rivers Accounts Swear Oath Framed Styx

Author:Mary Hunter Austin

“It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.”

Giving Character Water Steps Sea Cost Thousand Rain Garden Rivers Stones Monsters Labour Peculiar Horns Rail Ivy Spray Channeling Overflow Dripping Terrace Irrepressible

Author:Edith Wharton

“My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.”

Way Giving I Can Heaven Love Is Ought Praying Rivers Rewards Thee I Pray Famous Love Manifold Quench

Book:To My Husband and Other Poems

Source: To My Husband and Other Poems

“The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or recombination, is one of the most important results of mathematical analysis applied to the facts of neo-mendelism. It gives accident as well as adaptation a place in evolution, and at one stroke explains many facts which puzzled earlier selectionists, notably the much greater degree of divergence shown by island than mainland forms, by forms in isolated lakes than in continuous river-systems.”

“It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort of inspiration that you see from so many hundreds of people who tackle tasks that are impossible and never give up and succeed.”

“Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all.”

Giving Ends Nature Accepting Sea Lovers Rivers Woods Camps Sail Mercenary True Lovers

Author:John Burroughs

“This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.”

Way Giving Might Science Order Left Pay Happened Land Kings Taxes Equal Draws Rivers Size Proportion Owners Divided Egypt Revenue Measurement Geometry Imposing Nomenclature Notify

Author:Herodotus

“It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things running right. We're bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below. With that fact in mind, people like me make up all these rules to give us the illusion that we are in charge. I need to say to myself, they're not needed, hon. Just take in the buggy pleasures. Be kind to the others, grab the fleck of riverweed, notice how beautifully your bug legs scull.”

People Inspirational Needs Giving Mind Kind Facts Helping Running Energy Pleasure Struggle Fate Needed Illusion Rivers Legs Like Me Visible Be Kind Bugs Trout Controllers

Author:Anne Lamott

“I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.”

Life Giving Home Nature Morning Sun Tree Fairs Rivers Shining Occasions Hills Gentle Prose Grey Obliged Hue Sun Shines New Home Good Words Festive Yarn

Book:The letters of Margaret Fuller

Source: The letters of Margaret Fuller