“Rivers were the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they have borne men’s dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wonderlust, mimicked our arteries and charmed our imaginations in a way that the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could. Rivers had transported entire cultures, absorbed the tears of vanquished races, and propelled those foams that would impregnate future realms. Everywhere damned and defiled, they cast modern man’s witless reflection back at him – and went on singing the world’s inexhaustible song.” - Tom Robbins
