Water Quotes

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.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

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.

In time and with water, everything changes.

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

He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.

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

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.

There is no perfect gift without great suffering. Our triumphs and our pomps pass away; gluttony and sloth and enervating luxury have banished every virtue from the world; so that as it were wandering from its course our nature is subdued by habit. Now and henceforth it is meet that you cure yourself of laziness. The Master has said that sitting on down or lying under the quilts will not bring thee to fame. He who without it has frittered life away leaves no more trace of himself upon the earth than smoke does in the air or the foam on the water.

That cause which moves the water through its springs against the natural course of its gravity is like that which moves the humours in all the shapes of animated bodies.

The reason of this is that if you look at the movement of the wateryour eye will not be able to fix on anything, but its action is as that of things seen in your shadow when you are walking; for if the eyeat-tempt to distinguish the nature of the shadow, the wisps of strawor other things contained in it appear of rapid movement and it seems that these are much more swift to flee from the said shadow than the shadow is to proceed.

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.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life. The forests are also needed for mitigating extreme climatic fluctuations, holding the soil on the slopes, retaining the moisture in the ground, and controlling the equable flow of water in our streams.

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.