The Elders Speak:
On Water
Water is the driver of Nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
In every glass of water we drink, some of the water has already passed through fishes, trees, bacteria, worms in the soil, and many other organisms, including people... Living systems cleanse water and make it fit, among other things, for human consumption.
Elliot A. Norse, Animal Extinctions
If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in the water.
Loren Eisley
Everywhere water is a thing of beauty, gleaming in the dewdrops; singing in the summer rain; shining in the ice-gems till the leaves all seem to turn to living jewels; spreading a golden veil over the setting sun; or a white gauze around the midnight moon.
John Ballantine Gough, A Glass of Water
Water flows humbly to the lowest level.
Nothing is weaker than water,
Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong,
Nothing surpasses it.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third
thing that makes water and nobody knows what that is.
D. H. Lawrence, Pansies
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin
In the spring rain,
The pond and the river
Have become one.
Buson
The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.
Charles William Beebe, Log of the Sun
If you grew up in the country, chances are you have fond memories of lazy days down by a river, creek or pond.
Darlene Donaldson, The River
Praised be Thou, O Lord, for sister water, who is very useful, humble, precious, and chaste.
St. Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. ...
I am haunted by waters.
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
I have left almost to the last the magic of water, an element which owing to its changefulness of form and mood and color and to the vast range of its effects is ever the principal source of landscape beauty, and has like music a mysterious influence over the mind.
Sir George Sitwell, On the Making of Gardens
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
Jacques Cousteau
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