Oxley Wild Rivers

Famous quotes containing the words wild and/or rivers:

“The poet’s, commonly, is not a logger’s path, but a woodman’s. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It is easier to move rivers and mountains than to change a person’s basic nature.”
—Chinese proverb.