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| Mississippi River on a very hot July day |
...No matter how much it might be used by towing companies and water companies and commercial fisherman and trappers and the like, the river doesn't belong to the workaday world. And no matter how much it is used by pleasure boaters and water-skiers and the like, it doesn't belong to the vacation world either. It is never concerned, if you see what I mean. Nothing keeps to its own way more than the river does.
Another thing: No matter how corrupt and trashy it necessarily must be at times in this modern world, the river is never apart from beauty. Partly, I suppose, this is because it always keeps to its way.
Sometimes, living right beside it, I forget it. Going about my various tasks I don't think about it. And then it seems just to flow back into my mind. I stop and look at it. ...page 310 Jayber Crow © Wendell Berry
