Carolina Quotes
Water never goes away. It always comes back. You see in the summertime the sun drawing the water. If water leaves it will come back. How long has that river been there? How long has Stillhouse Creek been there going into the river? That’s the blood of life for the earth.
John Blackfeather Jeffries Carolinian
Source
Interview with Joe Liles at his home in Hillsborough, North Carolina, March 13, 2019; published in Ribbons of Color Along the Eno River, volume 2 (Eno River Association)
- form
- interview
- work
- Ribbons of Color Along the Eno River, volume 2
- year
- 2019
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“Water never goes away. It always comes back. You see in the …” John Blackfeather Jeffries. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-240F782E55. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/240f782e55
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