“Land lasts longer than blood or love. It is not like a river.”
“To me, a forest is just a bunch of trees, but lakes and rivers are alive. Water is to the land what blood is to the land.”
“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”
“I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”
“All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.”
“Blood may be thicker than water, but rivers run deeper...”