Quotes About Water

rising approximately 130 feet from the water. A later explorer described the cape as "three great mountains of sand that look like islands

because the water was deep and blue and chilly. The men of the fleet might have seen whales because this was the principal breeding site

That sense of security derived largely from the English Channel.

mainly wood for fire and fresh water.

diminutive island lacking in either fresh water or wood but seething with wildlife.

The water is of a fine blue colour

nightmare as razor-sharp rocks sawed into her hull, and she began taking on water.

The storm had stranded the castaways about seventy miles from the rest of the fleet, without food or wood or fresh water

His relief did not last long. He faced the largest body of water on the planet

Spirit is to matter, as ice is to water, in other words: the same substance, but in a different state. As you admire the beauty of the intricate frost lacework on a winter windowpane, you might pause to reflect that invisible lines of force existed before the frost. The cold manifests the beauty of the lines of force.

Orthodox religion poses a great danger to humanity, and that is why the magickian never allows him or her self to become trapped in this stagnant water. The great religions, the rituals of these religions, are only hints that once there stood on these banks one who flowed like water with the cosmos.

Water must be boiled to kill any germs that it contains

It seems inappropriate for the light to be so bright, for the sky to be so blue, and he's relieved when a cloud drifts over the sun and the water turns from silver to gray.

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction.

Safe yield in West Texas has long been abandoned for economic growth.

food and water can be thought of as a flow—or, more precisely, a critical-zone flow, a current with a volume that must be maintained. By contrast, fossil fuels are like a stock, a fixed amount of a good. Few dispute that the flow of food and water could be interrupted, with terrible effects. But people have disagreed for a century and a half—since the days of Pithole—about whether the world has an adequate stock of fossil fuels.

Mystery of love is like digging water: everything closes. (Mystère de l'amour est comme - Creuser l'eau : tout se referme)

The water caresses in the glass, like love in the body. (L'eau caresse dans le verre, Comme l'amour dans le corps)

The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun. (L'eau ne brille que par le soleil. - Et c'est toi qui es mon soleil.)

Water shines under the sun. But the sun dries it. (Eau brille sous soleil - Qui pourtant l'assèche.)

I have understood that it was, to the last, her proudest boast, that she never had been on the water in her life, except upon a bridge; and that over her tea (to which she was extremely partial) she, to the last, expressed her indignation at the impiety of mariners and others, who had the presumption to go 'meandering' about the world.

The fountain in the village flowed unseen and unheard, and the fountain at the chateau dropped unseen and unheard—both melting away, like the minutes that were falling from the spring of Time—through three dark hours. Then, the grey water of both began to be ghostly in the light, and the eyes of the stone faces of the chateau were opened.

The electricity you use at home each day requires 250 gallons of water per person, not just more than the actual water you use at home in the kitchen and the bathroom but two-and-a-half times more.

And, of course, water is the most important substance in our lives because we ourselves are made mostly of water—men are typically 60 percent water, women are typically 55 percent water. A 150-pound man is 90 pounds of water (11 gallons).4