Sublime

Riparian rights are the rights of a landowner to the reasonable use of water that flows through or adjacent to his or her property.

what a river can be—a friend, a companion, a hint of heaven.

Water, he said, is the most apt analogy for how a habit works. Water “hollows out for itself a channel, which grows broader and deeper; and, after having ceased to flow, it resumes, when it flows again, the path traced by itself before.”

Few phenomena gave me more delight than to observe the forms which thawing sand and clay assume in flowing down the sides of a deep cut on the railroad through which I passed on my way to the village, a phenomenon not very common on so large a scale, though the number of freshly exposed banks of the right material must have been greatly multiplied

Water flows to the lowest elevation.