89 Rivers Quotes for You to Enjoy

You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter. Anne Graham Lotz

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We will admit that, out of the mud or sand which is found on the seashore or the beds of our rivers, at low water, shellfish or testaceous animals come forth, but it does not from thence by any means follow that they are produced without any regular course of generation. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Generation Water Will Animals Our Out Follow Admit Rivers Come Course Without Does Beds Any Which Low Sand Forth Produced Mud Regular Means Seashore Found

Bahia is the Amazon's geographical next-of-kin: the same climate, forest canopy, diverse floor. But there is no wild cacao; the tree was introduced, most likely by a Frenchman, Louis Frederick Warneaux, who, in 1746, sowed seeds near one of Bahia's large rivers. Bill Buford

New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time. Bill Dedman

Time Risks First Adding States Properties Rivers New Along First Time Oceans Estimation Many Maps Flood Streams Zone Raised

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years. Bill Dedman

Boom City Rivers Built Years Survived Pittsburgh Coal Bust

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing. Bjorn Lomborg

Environmental World Half Important Situation Rich Increasing Waters Air Dramatically Air Pollution States Has-Been Indicator More Rivers Since Most Been Forests Than Improved The Most Important Pollution Cut Coastal United United States

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest. Bruce Babbitt

Life Think Back Those Restoring Rivers Taking Well Wolves Yellowstone Salmon Endangered Endangered Species Endangered Species Act Northwest Pacific Breathing Act Species

Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many. Candice S. Miller

Life Great People Live Maritime Our Resources Way Great Lakes Vital Entire Only Rivers Protect Least Provide Provides So Many People Lakes Us Harbors Many Ports

Some Western states have collaborative water agreements with Indian tribes - Washington state, for instance, monitors a number of its rivers to protect spawning salmon, which are promised to native peoples under 19th-century treaties. Charles C. Mann

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. Charles Lyell

Meet Valley Drift Rivers Which Commonly Plains Graze Bones

So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to current times, where you have Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Kristen Wiig. Chelsea Peretti

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When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don't remember how old she was at the time, but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it, and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet, you don't get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is. Chelsea Peretti

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I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things. Collis Potter Huntington

Success Day Country Building Once Saw Valleys Out Something Horses Take Rivers Almost Drove New Hills Attribute Yes York New York Interest Then Naturally Such Things Map Pair Villages Railroad Things

In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired. Goodluck Jonathan

In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They color the sea brown and green where deltas form from big rivers, or cities dump their sewage. Tiny yet hugely important, plankton govern how well the sea harvests the sun's bounty, and so are the foundation of the ocean's food chain. Gregory Benford

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Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature. Guy Finley

Today Nature Change Human Being First Single Changing Our Seven Valley Statistics Vary River Rivers Like Reach Deal Years Left Mountain Than Cell Same Any Done Human Being Wanting Wants Bodies Should Means Less Who Floor

My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me. Haile Gebrselassie

The water bodies are reducing everywhere in the Rift Valley. It's not because the water has been used. It's because the rivers flowing to the lakes are reducing because of climate change. Hailemariam Desalegn

Change Water Valley Everywhere Has-Been Rivers Because Climate Climate Change Reducing Been Lakes Bodies Used Rift Flowing

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers. Isaac Mizrahi

Joan Rivers Trying Next

Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma. Jeff Merkley

Health Rain Heart Cancer Pour Congress Down Our Asthma Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Sewage Neighbors Would Would-Be Thousands More Rivers Put Always Heart Disease Friends Families Disease Loved Acid Loved Ones Lakes Victims Skies Interests Choked Imagine

In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation's lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries. Jerry Costello

Day Quality Water Nation Our Earth Earth Day Members Rivers Investing Support House Encourage Celebration Improvement Legislation Lakes Streams Water Quality

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea. Jim Gerlach

Meet Rivers Sounds Where Places Harbors Sea Coastal

This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures. John Burnside

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