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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.”

“The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.”

Source: Hilaire Belloc: An Anthology of His Prose and Verse

“Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.”

Book Country Running Water Lines Break Sea Feet Land Rocks Proud Shadow Green Wings Wave Flight Hills Giants Shore Pale Pauses Glances Eagles Fling Compact

Book:The Herries Chronicles

Source: The Herries Chronicles

“There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.”

Men Form Water Magic Sea Land Draws Rivers Fishes Boat Hills Streams Lakes Fishing Creeks Over The Hill

Author:Herman Melville

“A writer from ESPN magazine once described me as the world's largest eleven-year-old. That's true. I ride my Sea-Doo jet ski, play putt-putt golf, go to water parks, and act silly. On the bottom floor of my house in Beverly Hills, I have video games, a pool table, a Pepsi machine, and all the things they have in arcades. I drive go-karts, at least the ones I can fit in. I karate-chop my friends when they come over, like the Kato dude in the Pink Panther movies.”

“The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the glare The world can boast, and her chief favorites share.”

World Song Fall Water Share Bird Luxury Chiefs Hills Retirement Echoes Boast Glare

Author:William Cowper

“But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the companionship of moon, water, hills and trees. Retreat, he reminds us, should not be confused with escape. And take these poems along for good luck!”

Needs Giving Feels Should Stills Water Tree Solitude Moon Luck Thanks Hills Confused Companionship Retreat Good Luck Frost

Author:Robert Graves

“The elks, on the other hand live up in the hills, and in the spring they come down for their annual convention. It is very interesting to watch them come to the water hole. And you should see them run when they find it is only a water hole. What they're looking for is an 'elk-a-hole'.”

Should Running Water Interesting Watches Spring Drinking Holes Hills Conventions Very Interesting Annuals Elk Animal Crackers

Author:Morrie Ryskind

“There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.”

Water Half Silence Sea Hills Salt Babbling Sea Water

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.”

Years Has Beens Water Conditions Environmental Hills Flood Drains Problems And Solutions Solution To A Problem

Author:Hal Borland

“The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the body dies; it will remain when the mountains depart and the hills shall be removed, and when the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. The fountain of His comfort shall never be diminished, and the stream shall never be dried. His comfort and joy is a living spring in the soul, a well of water springing up to everlasting life.”

Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume II - I

“The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.”

Water White Cities Rich Tree Fields Wall Bears Promise Wine Shining Wide Hills Breasts Corn Vines White Walls

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE