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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
-W. H. Auden
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When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.
-Samuel Butler
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Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink.
Water, water everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1798
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
-Don Delillo
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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
-Joan Didion
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
-Lao-Tzu
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Water flows humbly to the lowest level.
Nothing is weaker than water,
Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong,
Nothing surpasses it.
-Lao-Tzu
Tao Te Ching
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The best man is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in lowly places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao.
-Lao-Tzu
The Way of Lao-tzu
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Of a water that flows,
With a lullaby sound,
From a spring but a very few
Feet under ground --
From a cavern not very far
Down under ground.
-Edgar Allan Poe
For Annie (1849)
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So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loins and the breast-bones.
-Qur'an
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The Upholder of the Cycles which supports the whole of Life, is water. In every drop of water dwells the Godhead, whom we all serve; there also dwells Life, the Soul of the First substance - Water - whose boundaries and banks are the capillaries that guide it and in which it circulates. More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized PowerStation is presently able to produce.
-Viktor Schauberger
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Still falls the rain -- dark as the world of man, black as our loss -- blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
-Dame Edith Sitwell
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To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another. The gathering in of the clouds with the last rush and dying breath of the wind, and then the regular dripping of twigs and leaves the country over, the impression of inward comfort and Sociableness, the drenched stubble and trees that drop beads on you as you pass, their dim outline seen through the rain on all sides drooping in sympathy with yourself. These are my undisputed territory. This is Nature's English comfort.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
-John Updike
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A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I
-Theodore White
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Books about Water
