Savage River

Famous quotes containing the words savage and/or river:

“O what a thing is age! Death without death’s quiet.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

“The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)