For Clean Rivers
“A whole river is mountain country and hill country and flat country and swamp and delta country, is rock bottom and sand bottom and weed bottom and mud bottom, is blue, green, red, clear, brown, wide, narrow, fast, slow, clean, and filthy water, is all the kinds of trees and grasses and all the breeds of animals and birds and man that pertain and have ever pertained to its changing shores…”
— John Graves
‘Goodbye to a River’
For Recreation and River Access
A Philosophy of Public River Recreation, an opinion of Texas Rivers
“Believe me my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
— Ratty to Mole in Kenneth Grahame’s classic novel ‘The Wind in the Willows’
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
— Heraclitus of Ephesus
