Streams are Smart

"By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, 'There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.'"

From The House at Pooh Corner, by A.A. Milne. (Chapter Six, In Which Pooh Invents a New Game and Eeyore Joins In)