There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds. . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.
God willing and the creek don't rise
Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.
When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms, thinking of nothing, cramming the black honey of summer into my mouth; all day my body accepts what it is. In the dark creeks that run by there is this thick paw of my life darting among the black bells, the leaves; there is this happy tongue.
Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
Dry creek glimpsed by lightning
The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
I'm the only person in the entire world who has never see 'Dawson's Creek.
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Not even a repeat of Dawson’s Creek makes me feel better.
In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will get shushed, in the friendliest way. I have found sanctuary in libraries my whole life, and there is sanctuary there now, from the war, from the storms of our families and our own minds. Libraries are like mountains or meadows or creeks: sacred space. So this afternoon, I'll walk to the library.
And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.
One catfish does not make a creek, nor one hero a nation.
Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
