To his left the blue of sky and water. The view took his…

The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in…

— Hilda Conkling

“Where sky and water meet, Where the waves grow sweet, Doubt not, Reepicheep, To find all you seek, There is the utter East.”

— C.S. Lewis

Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.

— Heinrich Zimmer

“It was one of those warm, still, almost tropical nights, so rarely seen on the northern waters, when a profound calm reigns in the…

— George Kennan

“What an austere landscape! Borluut was alone, with nothing but the sky and water. No footsteps, apart from his own, marked the immense expanse,…

— Georges Rodenbach

Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them. The first…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and sky and…

— Jessica Day George

“The fireworks went on for nearly half an hour, great pulsing strobes, fiery dandelions and starbursts of light brightening both sky and water. It…

— Sol Luckman

“Why do men bother with churches at all when instead they might make cathedrals out of sky and water?”

— Hannah Kent

“The Avowal As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and water bears them, as hawks rest upon air and air sustains them;…

— Denise Levertov

“Suddenly the sun rose – like a burst of hope. The dark autumn water mirrored the sky; it began to breathe and the sun…

— Vasily Grossman

Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“It reminded him of the ocean, how the horizon formed a line where sky and water kissed.”

— A.I. Nasser

Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed…

— Luther Standing Bear