Sacred River

Famous quotes containing the words sacred and/or river:

    “What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun—it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “There is a great river this side of Stygia,”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)