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Lindsay Martin, Web Editor River Quotes: Your Daily Escape “Change not the river, for rocks in the river are good and are like our problems — without them we would not know if there was any current.” — Dennis Mapes * American Rivers recently praised the U.S. Department of Agriculture for continuing to protect sensitive lands that [...]

Lindsay Martin, Web Editor River Quotes: Your Daily Escape “I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.” — Edward Abbey * As flood waters recede in the Midwest, it’s apparent that sewage treatment facilities also sustained extensive damage. More River Quotes Will Return on August 21.

Lindsay Martin, Web Editor River Quotes: Your Daily Escape “[A river] has a life, a character, a voice of its own, and is as full of good fellowship as a sugar-maple is of sap. It can talk in various tones, loud or low, and of many subjects grave and gay…For real company and friendship, there is [...]

Lindsay Martin, Web Editor River Quotes: Your Daily Escape “The call of the river is a complexity of motion and sound which extracts from mere mortals the wildest diversity of emotional response. Awe, dread, tranquility, devotion, ecstasy. The river is an abstraction of universal force.” — Page Stegner * Learn more about our work in your region. River [...]

Lindsay Martin, Web Editor River Quotes: Your Daily Escape “Water is the most critical issue of our lifetime and our children’s lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.” — Luna Leopold * A recent Washington Post article reports that enforcement of the Clean Water Act is [...]