Water is the driving force in nature.

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.

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.

The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

The air moves like a river and carries the clouds with it; just as running water carries all the things that float upon it.