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Water Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer…
- We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
- The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is…
- Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the…
- I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the…
- All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll…
- After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down…
- It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know…
- Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but…
More Water Quotes
- People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when… — Chinua Achebe
- Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters. — Diane Ackerman
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot… — Erykah Badu
- Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs
- People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters… — James A. Baldwin
- I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as… — Tallulah Bankhead
- Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very… — George Matthew Adams