Charles Kuralt Rivers Quotations

The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.