White Water Baby !!

We are here in Colorado and I have not blogged because we have been so so busy !! I have had the time of my life. We have seen snow in June and all types of wild life. I am so in love with this place. I do believe that Manitou Springs will become home someday.

The care of rivers is not a question of rivers, but of the human heart.
- Tanako Shozo

Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road. 

- Bob Marshall

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
- A. A. Milne, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
- Hal Boyle

The song of the river ends not at her banks, but in the hearts of those who have loved her.
- Buffalo- Joe

The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it.
- Chinese Philosopher

The Sun shines not on us but in us. The Rivers flow not past, But through us.
- John Muir

The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.
- Herman Hesse (1877-1962), Siddharta, 1922

We labor long and earnestly for peace, because war threatens the survival of man. It is time we labored with equal passion to defend our environment. A polluted stream can be as lethal as a bullet.
- Senator Alan Bible (Nevada)

Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.
- Bob Shuster, U.S. Representative, quoted in Washington Post, 9 January 1987

I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.
- Teddy Roosevelt, 1908

The good life on any river may...depend on the perception of its music, and the preservation of some music to perceive.
- Aldo Leopold

Rivers have what man most respects and longs for in his own life and thoughta capacity for renewal and replenishment, continual energy, creativity, cleansing.
- John M. Kauffmann, EPA Journal. May 1981

... the time has also come to identify and preserve freeflowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.
- President Lyndon Johnson's Message on Natural Beauty

A river is more than an amenity.... It is a treasure. It offers a necessity of life that must be rationed among those who have power over it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), U.S. Supreme Court justice, New Jersey v. New York, 4 May 1931

I like rivers
Better than oceans, for we see both sides.
An ocean is forever asking questions
And writing them aloud along the shore
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, Roman Bartholow, Part 111

There is no rushing a river. When you go there, you go at the pace of the water and that pace ties you into a flow that is older than life on this planet. Acceptance of that pace, even for a day, changes us, reminds us of other rhythms beyond the sound of our own heartbeats.
- Jeff Rennicke, River Days: Travels on Western Rivers

Peace , love and adventure ....

Happy Hippie