‘A river is water in its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation; rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart.” – Robert Haig-Brown

“Who hears the rippling of rivers will not utterly despair of anything.” – Henry David Thoreau

“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” – John O'Donohue

“A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretence and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself.” – Maya Angelou

“By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” – A. A. Milne