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Quotes About Water

A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.
~ Thomas Cole
The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The sound of water says what I think.
~ Zhuangzi
The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
~ Izaak Walton
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
~ Rachel Carson
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
~ Patch Adams
Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.
~ John Muir
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
~ F. H. Bradley
As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?
~ Loren Eiseley
Actually, the mysteries of water are similar to those of the blood in the human body. In Nature, normal functions are fulfilled by water just as blood provides many important functions for mankind.
~ Viktor Schauberger
The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.
~ Lyonel Feininger
Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.
~ Yosa Buson
If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.
~ Saint Basil
The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
~ George Crumb
In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.
~ George Henry Lewes
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
~ Mencius
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.
~ Diane Ackerman
Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]
~ Ludovico Ariosto
Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.
~ Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Water is the driving force in nature.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The cold and crystal clear water, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul...
~ El Fuego
Water is sacred to all Human Beings. If you do not have water, you cannot have life. I always remember to honor and pour the water because it is traditional.
~ Autumn Morning Star