I wrote 'The River' practically TRYING to rip off EVERY lick that James Taylor had, so it was NEAT to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to WRITE them.

The SEA has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured WATER, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the LOW land.

Our trouble is that we DRINK too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the YELLOW RIVER down our throats.

Fifteen YEARS ago, my WIFE and I purchased an authentic LOG CABIN in Maryland. Painstakingly restored SINCE, the cabin sits on a forested bluff high above a wide river frequented by ospreys, eagles, geese, herons, and other water fowl.

If you hear Thelonious MONK play a run that goes from the top of the PIANO, OK, he has opened up the Grand Canyon with that. He's the river that's carved this entire space that we CALL the Grand Canyon. He does that with one run. He LETS you know, like, what the POSSIBILITY of the sound of the piano can do.

The WORST thing that HAPPENED when filming 'River Monsters' was the time when our SOUND recordist was HIT by lightning.

Preserving a RIVER or a CREEK can BRING a LOT of REVENUE.

For me, INDIA symbolises a BIG FIRE and a big RIVER.

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the SHOPS and BARS and everything are - is ACTUALLY an island, a RIVER island.

Myself and some KIDS on our estate became obsessed with the CREATION of the ultimate go-kart. This ambition culminated in the creation of a six-man super-cart, which was ESSENTIALLY a plank of wood with four wheels, and a failed attempt to jump a tributary of the RIVER Severn powered only by Rex, our DOG.

The removal of the British after the American REVOLUTION opened the floodgates of paramilitary ranger power. For instance, in 1786, ranger units, including one that included Daniel Boone, ATTACKED a number of FRIENDLY Shawnee towns ALONG the Mad River.

All indications are that three and a half billion YEARS ago, MARS looked like Earth. It had lakes. It had RIVERS. It had river deltas. It had snow-capped peaks and puffy clouds and blue sky. Three and a half billion years ago, it was a HAPPENING place. The same time on Earth, that's when life started. So did life start on Mars?

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay EAST of the MISSISSIPPI River, and all of them, even when they were physically MERE extensions of one ANOTHER, were separately owned and separately managed.

I once paddled a canoe the LENGTH of the MISSISSIPPI RIVER all the WAY from Itasca to NEW Orleans.

I ate some really AMAZING food in Thailand. I had river turtle, and dried rat, which was QUITE chewy and INTERESTING and a bit like biltong.