River Sayings and Quotes

Rivers are more than the place for a nice kayak ride or fishing trip, they’re often used as metaphors for life. We’re constantly flowing from one moment or milestone to the next, unable to stop the tide of time. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and insightful river quotes.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. Rachel Carson
I have never yet seen a river that I could not love. Moving water, even in a pipeline or a flume, has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river. Roderick Haig-Brown
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Rumi
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world. Ted Turner
A river sings a holy song conveying the mysterious truth that we are a river, and if we are ignorant of this natural law, we are lost. Thomas Moore
When we save a river, we save a major part of an ecosystem, and we save ourselves as well because of our dependence - physical, economic, spiritual,on the water and its community of life. Tim Palmer
Intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is the less noise it makes. unknown
Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment of life. unknown
But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat, in the fog, in the dark. Even a man of faith knows that (as Burley Coulter used to say) we've all got to go through enough to kill us. Wendell Berry