“The only water in the forest is the 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.”

“They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.”

“Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. a”

“If only there were a river of courage, - Rahel whispered. I would bend down, cup the water in my hand and drink.”

“Was it pretty? Your country. . .your land?" "It was beautiful," the gunslinger said. "There were fields and forests and rivers and mists in the morning. But that's only pretty. My mother used to say that the only real beauty is order and love and light.”