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Water Quotes by Wendell Berry
- Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the…
- With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market,…
- Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to…
- We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging…
- The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field…
- The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and…
- When there are enough people on the land to use it but not enough to husband it, then the wildness of the soil that we…
- When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and…
- I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to…
- If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in…
- Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we cannot…
- This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and…
- Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways…
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