Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

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They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could have made better time with a horse.

~ Madeleine L'engle

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Trees don't sneak on you.-Brook Where Small Fish Swim

~ Erin Hunter

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Stop, stop pretty water!Said Mary one dayTo a frolicsome brookThat was running away.You run on so fast!I wish you would stay;My boat and my flowersYou will carry away.But I will run after:Mother says that I may;For I would know whereYou are running way.So Mary ran on;But I have heard say,That she never could findWhere the brook ran away.

~ Eliza Lee Follen

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In the country, especially, there are such a lot of entertaining things. I can walk over everybody's land, and look at everybody's view, and dabble in everybody's brook; and enjoy it just as much as though I owned the land--and with no taxes to pay!

~ Jean Webster

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