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where a river is still small enough to insult and live.
means The source or uppermost part of a stream or river, where it first begins to flow before gathering into a larger waterway.
from A plain compound of "head" and "water," stitched together in English. "Head" here carries its old sense of "top, beginning, or source" — the same instinct that gives us the head of a valley, the head of a bed, or the head of a table. So a headwater is simply the water at the top, the trickling start before the river grows into something that can drown you.
- baby river
- every great river starts as a trickle you could step over
- continental divide
- raindrops feet apart end up oceans apart
- mississippi origin
- begins as a knee-deep stream in Minnesota
- protected ground
- pollution here poisons everything downstream
- hard to find
- sources sparked centuries of obsessive exploration
source of the nile — lake victoria in uganda, the largest african lake and primary source of the world's longest river
source of the amazon — mismi peak in peru at 5,597m, where the río arequipa begins the journey to the atlantic
source of the mississippi — lake itasca in minnesota at 1,475 feet elevation, officially designated headwater since 1832