River Common

Famous quotes containing the words river and/or common:

“It is ... despair at the mutability of all created things that links the Artist and the Ascetic—a desire to purify and preserve—to set oneself apart—somehow—from the river flowing onward to the grave.”
—Michele Murray (1933–1974)

“It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)