The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present. Life, if well spent, is long.

Water is the driving force in nature.

The water wears away the mountains and fills up the valleys, and if it had the power it would reduce the earth to a perfect sphere.

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish, a grampus or sperm whale, because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.