Famous quotes containing the words fall, river and/or valley:
“I have every characteristic of a night persona distaste for bosses, a hatred of the expected, an obsession with gaining an ultimately nonexistent freedomevery quality except one. I cant stay awake after a while. I fall asleep.”
—John Bowers (b. 1928)
“Nature seemed to have adorned herself for our departure with a profusion of fringes and curls, mingled with the bright tints of flowers, reflected in the water. But we missed the white water-lily, which is the queen of river flowers, its reign being over for this season.... Many of this species inhabit our Concord water.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I see before me now a traveling army halting,
Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,
Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high,”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)