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His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long. -- E. B. White
It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind. -- Jefferson Davis
We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them. -- Chief Joseph
Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown. -- William Hazlitt
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. -- Soren Kierkegaard
I was sitting here without a shirt on, absentmindedly scratching my back with a pen for about five minutes and I just looked in the mirror and saw that I had drawn a nice mural on my back. It looks kind of like a map of Wyoming, with all the rivers and mountain ranges, or maybe a portrait of Bob Marley. Yes. Tablature -- Jade Puget
Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher. -- Morihei Ueshiba
The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men. -- John Muir
Mountains and rivers are easy to move, but it's impossible to change a man's nature. -- Zhang Xianliang
Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained. -- John Ruskin
Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs. -- Jim Harrison
Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth; sun, moon, and stars. -- Dogen
What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols. -- Anatole France
I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries. -- Brian Andreas
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment. -- Saint Augustine
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led. -- William Wordsworth
There are... many... names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers. -- Peter Shumlin
How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful -- Mian Mian
China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years. -- Li Peng
Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness. -- Dogen
Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this. -- David R. Brower
In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine. -- John Muir
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. -- George William Curtis
God is not only something metaphysical, but also the physical world, the plants and animals, the mountains and rivers, the air and the sun and the earth. -- Jeffrey R. Anderson
Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go. -- H. Rider Haggard
Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?" -- Anthony de Mello
We need mountains to climb, rivers to cross; we need obstacles to become stronger! Do not hesitate to wish for obstacles on your way! Demand for the obstacles! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be, The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land ten times more beautiful. -- Ho Chi Minh
This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood... -- Vladimir Bukovsky
Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves. -- Matsuo Basho

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