A blog dedicated to preserving the beauty and delicate ecosystem of the River Ribble, and opposing any 'vision' to build a barrage on our River and develop on our riverbanks, floodplains and green spaces, causing damage to wildlife and the environment and increasing the risk of flooding to our homes. Save the Ribble Campaign is not responsible for the content of external blogs or websites which link here.
Calling all Ribblesiders...
posted by Reigh Belisama @ 10:22 am
"What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left, oh let them be left, wildness and wet; long live the weeds and the wilderness yet." Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them" Bill Vaughn
"Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do" Aristotle
"This is a beautiful river. Yes, a very beautiful river. I love it more than anything. Often I have listened to it, often I have looked into its eyes, and always I have learnt from it. Much can be learnt from a river." - Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
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In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy. John Sawhill
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time" Leonardo da Vinci
"What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide" William Shakespeare
"The care of rivers is not a question of rivers, but of the human heart"
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