Quotes on Streams - the wonders of Nature

Nature's Unity

1. "Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams—they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do—they all contain truths." — Muhammad Ali
2. "As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God." — Swami Vivekananda

Life's Journey

3. "The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it." — Woodrow Wilson
4. "Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream." — Malcolm Muggeridge
5. "If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song." — Carl Perkins

Reflection and Peace

6. "One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others." — Lao Tzu
7. "The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone." — George Eliot

Nature's Grandeur

8. "The rivers flow not past, but through us." — John Muir
9. "Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday." — A.A. Milne
10. "The first river you paddle runs through you the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are." — Lynn Culbreath Noel

Challenges and Strength

11. "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 your life." — Unknown
12. "Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!" — Edwin Markham

Spiritual Insights

13. "In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal." — Saint Teresa of Avila
14. "Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain." — John Locke

Adventure and Discovery

15. "May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets' towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl." — Edward Abbey
16. "The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest." — John Muir

Life's Flow

17. "Life is a never-ending stream of problems that must be confronted, surmounted, and/or solved." — Mark Manson
18. "We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams." — Richard Le Gallienne

Harmony with Nature

19. "It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden." — John Muir
20. "All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit." — John Muir