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“Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible ache, dredging with hooks as rivers are dredged when someone's been missing too long. I have to think my mother felt something like that.”

Thinking Long Hard Mother Felt Grief Missing Rivers Stomach Hook Ache Scraping Dredging

Book:Peace Like a River

Source: Peace Like a River

“I don't know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, 'Why don't you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?' And I always say, well, when you say that, you've also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that's got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate.”

“.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'”

Thinking Blood Masters Glory Rivers Triumph Cosmos Pale Emperor Fractions Dots Momentary Vastness Cosmic Consciousness Pale Blue Dot Across The Universe Astronomy And Universe Blue Planet

Book:Conversations with Carl Sagan

Source: Conversations with Carl Sagan

“If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.”

Ifs Thinking Stories Five Bed Flow Rivers Fingers Spread One Direction Delta Five Fingers

Book:Poemas, 1963-2000

Source: Poemas, 1963-2000

“There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us. Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you "Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?" - Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent. Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn't. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.”

Ifs Thinking Want Littles Has Beens Wanted Together Steps Our Lives Failing Mountain Rivers Crosses Silent Casts Brotherhood You Again Get Together

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me. And you are still with me. When I breathe, I will think of you, for without you I would have been dead years ago. When I wake up and when I sleep, when I lift up my hands to defend myself or when I lie down to die, you will be with me. You say we are born and born again. I say there is a river that divides the dead and the living. What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.”

“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.”

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“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

“I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree, at first recognized as a frontier; Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce; Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges. The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten By the dwellers in cities-ever, however, implacable. Keeping his seasons, and rages, destroyer, reminder Of what men choose to forget. Unhonored, unpropitiated By worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting.”

“Any river is really the summation of a whole valley. It shapes not only the land but the life and even the culture of that valley. To think of any river as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part of it.”

Thinking Whole Water Greater Rain Rivers Environmental Valleys

Author:Hal Borland

“How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, River and trees and cattle and all Over the countryside. Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown- Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down!”

Thinking Looks Children I Can Can Do Air Tree Wall Summer Garden Rivers Blue Green Wide Flying Brown Swings Roof June Countryside Cattle Up In The Air

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Forget all you know or think you know; Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity.”

Thinking Knows Spiritual Forget Flow Rivers Eternity Currents Abandon Inward Decree

Book:Willow: a novel

Source: Willow: a novel

“I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.”

Thinking Night Stars Rivers Environmental Memorable Joining

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.”

Thinking Knows States America Lines Rivers Memorable Highways Rivers And Water White Water

Author:Charles Kuralt

“American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door. Until then, it is merely someone elses problem and a problem that we fool ourselves into thinking won't reach us.”

Thinking Doe Problem Water Realizing Doors Danger Fool Rivers Tyranny Rising

Author:Charley Reese

“Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes -love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself -and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others -should we call it joy?”