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“When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.”

“To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.”

Life Humans Long Moments Running Objects Long Time Lifetime Supposed To Be Human Life Streams Glorious Tides Justification Flood

Author:James Dickey

“The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.”

Done Running Winter Streams Brooks Morrow

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.”

Firsts Stills Running Lines Streams Decline Parallels Quarrels Scarce Dissension

Book:The Poems of Garth, and Tickell

Source: The Poems of Garth, and Tickell

“As you become more rooted inside -- as you drink from this silent stream of life that runs beneath the surface of everything -- as you live from that depth of your own being more and more, then you’ll be able to rise taller and stronger in this world; more than you may have ever thought possible.”

World May Running Able This World Drink Stronger Silent Depth Surface Streams Rooted Beneath The Surface

Author:Derek Rydall

“How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don’t even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along.”

Ifs Has Beens Running Lying Water Clear Pure Welcome Streams Pouring Refills

Book:The Dog Stars

Source: The Dog Stars

“The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.”

Running Sides Walks Oil Streams Stride Umbrella Hasty

Author:Jonathan Swift

“O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like the atmosphere of dreams.”

Dream Running Earth Spirit Heaven Birth Leaving Hills Atmosphere Streams Twilight Melting Enchantment Softness

Book:The Dream: And Other Poems

Source: The Dream: And Other Poems

“The beauty that men seek is half a dream-- Where'er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a setting star, It stirs the ripple of an ebbing stream. And though we run beyond the dawning gleam, Or kneel to worship at an altar bright, We may not know the soul of its delight, Or more than marvel at its palest beam.”

Knows Men May Soul Dream Running Lying Stars Half Beauty Worship Delight Setting Settings Wander Streams Altars Beam Ripple Gleam Afar Wands

Book:The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...

Source: The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...

“the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.”

Looks Sometimes Hard Running Food Baby Bed Tests Cooking Fantastic Cooks Streams Dull Eggs Diamond Shells Fabulous Feathers Texture Fireworks Cooling Octopus Boiled Eggs

Author:Nancy Mitford

“Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those influences are present and at what time and what really serves the deeper process that is constantly running like a stream underground. Influence is incessant. Influence is a fact. But, carry a big shovel and dig constantly to clear away all the unessentials so that the origins of mystery and the poetic force of life can get into and inspire the work.”

World Art Facts Bigs Running Artist Individual Force Process Clear Mystery Influence Inspire Photographer Deeper Factors Streams Poetic Art World Incessant Shovels

Author:Paul Caponigro