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“The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.”

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Author:James Lee

“Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and wade, leading or dragging your boat through trickling shallows from one pool to the long channel-twisted pool below, hanging up occasionally on shuddering bars of quicksand, making six or eight miles in a day's lazy work, but if you go to the river at all, you tend not to mind. You are not in a hurry there; you learned long since not to be.”

Ifs Mind Long Water Six Summer Lows Rivers Eight Miles Bars Boat Dry Lazy Autumn Pool Twisted Wade Quicksand Shuddering

Book:Goodbye to a river: a narrative

Source: Goodbye to a river: a narrative

“What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.”

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Author:Anthony de Mello

“My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.”

Water My Own Listening Grew Grew Up Musical Miles Backgrounds Composition Rama Muddy Coltrane

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Food is like a torture device because hiking 47 miles a day is hard enough. And then you're trying to get down 6,000 calories a day. Every hour, I needed a snack, every few hours I had to take in a meal and it's just not food, it's fuel. You're not enjoying it - you're seriously shoving it in your mouth and following it with water, juice or Gatorade.”

Trying Hard Enough Enjoy Water Hours Needed Mouths Following Miles Meals Torture Fuel Devices Hiking Juice Calories Snacks Gatorade

Author:Jennifer Pharr Davis

“A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.”

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Book:Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

“Although the United States has made tremendous progress cleaning up its water by removing billions of pounds of pollutants and doubling the number of waterways safe for fishing and swimming, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted lake, river, stream or coastal area.”

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Author:Carol Browner

“I saw a charity appeal in the Guardian the other day, and it read "Little Zuki has to walk 13 miles a day just to fetch water". And I couldn't help thinking, she should move.”

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Author:Jimmy Carr

“And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.”

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Author:William Scranton

“When you're heading into Anzac cove you are going into this battle situation staring into the sun. So, any movement in that water, any glint is going to be seen for miles away. Even in the first rays of dawn, there's nowhere to hide.”

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Author:Russell Crowe

“...nuclear warfare is not necessary to cause a breakdown of our society. You take a large city like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago-their water supply comes from hundreds of miles away and any interruption of that, or food, or power for any period of time, you're going to have riots in the streets. Our society is so fragile, so dependent on the interworking of things to provide us with goods and services, that you don't need nuclear warfare to fragment us anymore than the Romans needed it to cause their eventual downfall.”

“Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.”

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Book:The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell