“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.”
“Concord is a classic land. The names of Emerson and Thoreau and Channing and Hawthorne are associated with the fields and forests and lakes and rivers of this township.”
“...water is to the land what blood is to the body.”
“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.”
“Land lasts longer than blood or love. It is not like a river.”
“Give me a land of boughs in leafA land of trees that stand;Where trees are fallen there is grief;I love no leafless land.”