Weir River Estuary

Famous quotes containing the words weir, river and/or estuary:

    The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim’s cheque-books.
    —Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914)

    If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.
    Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)

    I see in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it
    pours in the great sea.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)