Monongahela River
On way to confluence with the Allegheny River to form the Ohio River
The Monongahela River (referred to locally as the 'Mon') is a 130-mile-long river on the Allegheny Plateau in north-central West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania. The river flows from the confluence of its west and east forks in north central West Virginia northeasterly into southwestern Pennsylvania, then northerly to Pittsburgh and its confluence with the Allegheny River to form the Ohio River. The river is navigable its entire length via a series of locks and dams.
QuotaBillsWhat a beautiful view! - Alan Shepard
Wisdom requires the long view. - John F. Kennedy
Colors are the smiles of nature. - Leigh Hunt
The mountains are calling and I must go. - John Muir
A father is a banker provided by nature. - French Proverb
Nature creates nothing without a purpose. - Aristotle
Communism is in conflict with human nature. - Ernest Renan
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - William Shakespeare
The power which resides in him is new in nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. - William Wordsworth
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. - Cyril Connolly
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. - Isaac Newton
Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better. - Ricky Gervais
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - Francois Malet-Joris
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. - Cicero
Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table is ready." - Robin Williams
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? - Charles Baudelaire
An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. - Walter Winchell
Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations. - Stephen Covey
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. - John Burroughs
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. - D H Lawrence
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. - Al Gore
I not only think we tamper with Mother Nature, I think that Mother Nature wants us to. - Willard Gatlin
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. - L Wolfe Gilbert
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard
Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. - Sophia Loren
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. - Joseph Addison
Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness. - Warfield Theobald Longcope
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald
Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. - Martin H. Fischer
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. - Plato
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. - George Washington Carver
Miracle: An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. - Ambrose Bierce
Advice from a tree:
- Stand tall and proud
- Go out on a limb
- Remember your roots
- Drink plenty of water
- Enjoy the view - Unknown