“The mercy of forgiveness is brought from the strength to accept any situation given and faced. Spiritual independence and humbleness toward life makes life like a flowing river of release. What happens will happen anyways, and everybody can make mistakes. The important thing is to learn how to make a better future from the mistake.” ImportantHappensSpiritualGivenMistakeSituationAcceptingRiversMercyIndependenceImportant ThingsReleaseMaking MistakesBetter FutureHumblenessFlowing River Author:Hiroko Sakai
“I'd say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our lives and introducing us to the power of natural landscapes, his [my father's] biggest impact on my thinking has been to always argue that the "spiritual case for Nature" was not going to outweigh the needs of 7 billion people and to insist that law, science and economics were the critical frameworks through which we had to defend the value of nature.” PeopleThinkingNeedsHas BeensSpiritualLawValuesFatherNaturalCasesOur LivesBrotherEconomicsRiversImpactCriticalArguingBillionsLandscapeMy BrotherHikingIntroducingBrothers And SistersFrameworkCampingRafting Author:Edward Norton
“When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.” WritingSpiritualReligiousAnimalIntellectualRiversSensual Author:Laura Nyro
“... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.” MenYearsEnoughWholeSpiritualRecordsSeaSeriousRiversSeasonsFishesBoatLakesFishingAnguish Author:Ed Zern
“As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.” WorldDoeSpiritualExistenceSeaLandMankindEmotionalDependsRiversLakesFarmersFishermanBeauty Of The World Author:Ansel Adams
“To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.” NeedsSpiritualSpiritualityPathRivers Author:Matthew Fox