Best wind & rivers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come and wait for the turn of the tide.”

Made Turns Waiting Darkness Wind Rivers Bounds Calm Tides Flood Sail Anchors

Book:Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad

Source: Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad

“The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.”

Heart Song Sound Tree Wind Masters Bird Understood Rivers Scholar Wind In The Trees

Book:The Song of the Bird

Source: The Song of the Bird

“Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?”

Water Nature Lines Written Wind Rivers Sheets Publish Sheet Music

Author:John Muir

“A voice of greeting from the wind was sent; The mists enfolded me with soft white arms; The birds did sing to lap me in content, The rivers wove their charms, And every little daisy in the grass Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass!”

Looks Littles Faces Voice Nature White Wind Arms Bird Rivers Grass Charm Look Up Lap Mist Daisies Greetings

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.”

Sea Wind Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Sailing Here And There Trout

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready.Heaven's ways include the human:among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.”

Way Humans Two Heaven Sky Ready Wind Sorrow Thousand Rivers Edges Heavy Vulnerable Ease Grass Coast Spiders Dew Stand Alone Falcon Gulls I Stand Alone

Author:Du Fu

“But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply.”

Beautiful Water Nature Walks Tree Sky Wind Rivers Blue Surface Ran Streams Pleasant Touching Delicious Lilies Water Lily

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“There are many names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains.”

Names Wind Mountain Rivers Locality

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The history of the universe and nature is being told to us by the stars, by the Earth, by the uprising and elevation of the mountains, by the animals, the woods and jungles, and by the rivers. Our task is to know how to listen and interpret the messages that are sent to us. The original peoples knew how to read every movement of the clouds, the meaning of the winds, and they knew when violent downpours were coming... We have forgotten all that.”

Knows Earth Universe Stars Animal Know How Movement Wind Mountain Messages Rivers Tasks Originals Environmental Forgotten Clouds Woods Violent Jungle Stewardship Uprising Elevation

Author:Leonardo Boff

“We have not wondered enough at the delights God has given us to appreciate them, and be good stewards. We have overworked the land, poured pollutants into river and stream, fouled the air we breathe with gas fumes and chemical smoke spiraling up from industrial chimneys. We have sown the wind. We are reaping the whirlwind.”

Enough Given Air Land Wind Appreciate Rivers Environmental Delight Breathe Be Good Smoke Streams Gas Chemicals Stewardship Chimneys Stewards Whirlwind

Book:A Stone for a Pillow

Source: A Stone for a Pillow

“We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throw-away paper products. We can tear apart the great grass cover of the western plains and pour toxic chemicals into the soil and pesticides onto the fields until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind. We can pollute the air with acids, the rivers with sewage, the seas with oil - all this in a kind of intoxication with our power for devastation at an order of magnitude beyond all reckoning.”

“Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.”

“The heart of a city Is the soul of a man It winds like a river Through the heart of the land They can tear down a building They can tear down a park They can strike at a symbol But they can't strike the heart.”

Men Heart Soul Cities Land Tears Building Wind Rivers Strikes Symbols Parks

Author:Janis Ian

“Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.”

Knows Men Years Littles Doe Country Sin Wind Rivers Mercy Swimming Crowns Frailty

Author:William E. Gladstone

“It is a blessing. When I first got wind of [Chris Rivers] taking the rap thing serious and wanting to make a career out of it.”

Firsts Careers Serious Wind Blessing Rivers Rap

Author:Tony Sunshine

“If I'm reading about a river or the trees or the wind blowing or the stars at night, if you can hear that in the music in some way, you've wedded the two and your imagination takes off. To be able to hear that in music is really important.”

Ifs Way Two Important Able Night Reading Stars Imagination Tree Wind Music Is Rivers Wind Blowing

Author:Julie Andrews

“The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.”

Knows Mean Path Wind Rivers Track Following Staying Bending Right Track

Author:Eartha Kitt

“Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.”

“From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.”

Men May Motivational Success Fear Too Much Sea Wind Safe Rivers Thanksgiving Dead Man Much Love Hopes And Fears

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: "Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter?" And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along.”

Ifs Bigs Voice Known Cry Wind Rain Rivers Train Dear Peter Echoes Jackets Collars Railroads

Book:The Town and the City

Source: The Town and the City

“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”

Source: Hemingway's Paris

“I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.”

Sound Sides Black White Path Wind Rivers Stones Bones Desert Grass Streams Cliffs Thorns Cultivation Hawks Chile Whistling Beetles Emeralds Signs Of Life

Book:In Patagonia

Source: In Patagonia

“(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.”

“Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew.”

Stars Air Fields Wind Spring Rivers Breaths Invisible Rising Valleys Twilight Flew Ponds Clovers

Book:A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

Source: A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

“What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside.”

Way Firsts Persons Stills Water Color Wind First Time Rivers Filled I Realized Countryside

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.”

“At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it - if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can't see anything green during the day? Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.”

“Like the sweet moon keeps the sky Like the wind goin' whooshing by When those ol' sunbeams break the day I will keep you while you play Just as ol' river keeps the fishes And little stars keep silver wishes Just as the ocean keeps the blue I will stand here close to you. When all around is dark and deep When them ol' shadows slowly creep Even when you're fast asleep It's you I'll keep, it's you I'll keep No need to cry, no need to fear I will always be right here. I will always be right here.”

Needs Littles Play Wish Stars Dark Break Sky Cry Sweet Wind Moon Ocean Shadow Rivers Blue Fishes Silver Creeps Sunbeams

Book:The Underneath

Source: The Underneath

“I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.”

Children Light Turns Born My Own Cities Wind Rivers Let Me Oil East Cures All Time Be You Midnight Garbage Shields Manhattan Poisonous Slick Venom Antibodies Punisher

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one years old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?”

Source: The Things They Carried

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