It's organic. It's like a river. One stream comes in and it meets another stream and becomes the Amazon. Votes: 3
Bahia is the Amazon's geographical next-of-kin: the same climate, forest canopy, diverse floor. But there is no wild cacao; the tree was introduced, most likely by a Frenchman, Louis Frederick Warneaux, who, in 1746, sowed seeds near one of Bahia's large rivers. Votes: 1
Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon's main stem was connected to the Niger River and actually flowed in the opposite direction, toward the Pacific Ocean. Votes: 0
When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage. Votes: -1
The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy. Votes: -2
I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world. Votes: 6 Richard Branson
You sure you're not a Roman, Annabeth? Or an Amazon? Votes: 3 Rick Riordan
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. Votes: 6 Minna Antrim