Best sacred & rivers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.”

“The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).”

Flow Rivers Sacred Fountain Topsy Turvy

Author:Euripides

“Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies, or in the safety of the woods, prayers are being repeated, as they have for thousands of years, and common people with uncommon courage and the whispers of their ancestors in their ears continue their struggles to protect the land and water and trees on which their very existence is based. And like small tributaries joining together to form a mighty river, their force and power grows.”

Source: The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings

“Berta Caceres was a Lenca Indian activist well-known in her country, shot in her home. She was not only known in Honduras, she was one of the world's best-known environmentalists and had recently opposed plans for a dam on a river considered sacred by the Lenca. Honduran police have said they are investigating the murder as a botched robbery, but many of her colleagues believe Caceres was targeted.”

World Believe Wells Said Country Home Known Plans Shots Rivers Murder Police Sacred Indian Activist Colleagues Well Known Environmentalist Robbery Dams Investigating Honduras

Author:Renee Montagne

“The journey to sacred places is the most common way that people travel in India. They are always going on pilgrimages to sacred places. They are always undertaking spiritual journeys to visit the great shrines in the Himalayan tier of pilgrimage places; these places are called tirthas, a word that means "crossing place," a place where you can cross the river to the far shore but also cross over into another dimension of life. Cross over to heaven, in one sense it's used.”

People Way Mean Spiritual Used Heaven Common Journey Rivers Crosses India Sacred Dimensions Shore Crossings Undertakings Pilgrimage Spiritual Journey Shrines Sacred Places

Author:Diana L. Eck

“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.”

Men Poetry Pleasure Sea Rivers Sacred Ran Decree Domes Great Poetry Caverns

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.”

Humans Long Might Earth Water Race Flow Rivers Hatred Sacred Moved Calm Human Race Burned Ashes Down To Earth

Book:A Suitable Boy

Source: A Suitable Boy

“I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They travelled to seek money and business, and for weddings, and on pilgrimages, and the river was obstructing their path, and the ferryman's job was to get them quickly across that obstacle. But for some among thousands, a few, four or five, the river has stopped being an obstacle, they have heard its voice, they have listened to it, and the river has become sacred to them, as it has become sacred to me.”

Has Beens Jobs Voice Path Five Four Heard Rivers Sacred Obstacles Pilgrimage

Author:Hermann Hesse

“The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.”

Inspirational Mother Dies Environment Blood Land Rivers Sacred Core Indian Native American Earth Day Native American Wisdom Native America Native American Indian Native American Earth Native Land

Book:Ohitika Woman

Source: Ohitika Woman

“We in Himalaya are facing a crisis of survival due to the suicidal activities being carried out in the name of development… The monstrous Tehri dam is a symbol of this… There is need for a new and long-term policy to protect the dying Himalaya. I do not want to see the death of the most sacred river of the world-the Ganga- for short-term economic gains.”

World Want Needs Long Names Term Economic Dying Policy Development Activity Protect Survival Gains Rivers Crisis Sacred Dues Symbols Long Term Suicidal Short Term Monstrous Dams Himalayas

Author:Sunderlal Bahuguna

“Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded of life's passing, while by the ocean's beauty we accept it, in a hope we cannot explain.”

Accepting Sea Ocean Rivers Sacred Passing Passings Coast Comforting Disappearance Sacred Places

Author:Robert Adams

“We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.”

Water Pieces Flow Rivers Sacred Woods Streams Tied Dandelions International Peace World Peace Day International Peace Day Flowing Water Sacred Texts

Author:Malala Yousafzai

“Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body”

Life Wells Body My Own Sun Moon Rivers Sacred Buddhist Temples Pilgrimage

Author:Saraha

“Make each day truly new, dressing it with the blessings of heaven, bathing it in wisdom and love and putting yourself under the protection of Mother Nature. Learn from the wise, from the sacred books, but do not forget that every mountain, river, plant or tree also has something to teach.”

Book Earth Mother Heaven Forget Teach Wise Tree Blessing Mountain Rivers And Love Sacred Plant Protection Each Day Dressings Mother Nature Bathing

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their sacred river had its source among the stars.”

Stars Century Source Rivers Sacred Historian Egypt Fifth Nile

Book:The Egypt Code

Source: The Egypt Code

“I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.”

Ifs Needs Sun Rocks Rivers Sacred Pauses Rushing

Book:I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion

Source: I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion

“Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content. Paulo Coelho Quotes From Like the Flowing River “Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.”

People Feels Should Humans Persons Human Beings Alive Normal Rivers Madness Sacred Flames Behave Searching For Happiness Flowing River

Author:Paulo Coelho

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