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It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.
- Edith Wharton, Italian Villas and Their Gardens
In every glass of water we drink, some of the water has already passed through fishes, trees, bacteria, worms in the soil, and many other organisms, including people... Living systems
cleanse water and make it fit, among other things, for human consumption. Elliot A. Norse
The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as the basis of an abstract idea linking ourselves with the limitless mechanics of the universe. - Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe
God's Warrior
As children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is
to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.
William Ashworth, Nor Any Drop to Drink, 1982
When time comes for us to again rejoin the infinite stream of water flowing to and from the great timeless ocean, our little droplet of soulful water will once again flow with the endless stream. - William E. Marks, The Holy Order of Water
If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in the water.
- Loren Eisley
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our bodies are molded rivers.
- Novalis
Water is the driver of Nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
In the Western United States,
water flows uphill to money.
- Glen Sanders
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
- Heraclitus of Ephesus
If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.
- Jan Erik Vold, What All The World Knows
Water sustains all.
- Thales of Miletus, 600 B.C.
If you saw what the river carried, you would never drink the water.
- Jamaican proverb
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Every peasant is proud of the pond in his village because from it he measures the sea.
- Russian proverb
The stone in the water knows nothing of the hill which lies parched in the sun.- African Proverb
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
- Chinese proverb
Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered,
and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does
that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner
engraved on the back.
- Edgar Lee Masters
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
- Mark Twain
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves
on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz
A little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing.
- Proverb from Liberia
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.
- American Indian Saying
The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious
of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Advice to those about to build a Water-garden - DON'T. Not that the Water-garden is not a joy and a glory; but that it is cruelly hard to keep in order and control unless you are a master of millions and of broad ample acres of pool and pond. Water, like fire, is a good servant, perhaps, but is painfully liable to develop into a master.
- R. J. Farrer, Alpines and Bog Plants, 1908
Filthy water cannot be washed.
- African proverb
Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
- William Feather
Innumerable as the stars of night,
Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your headwith silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
- Langston Hughes, April Rain Song, 1902 - 1967
Everywhere water is a thing of beauty gleaming in the dewdrop,
singing in the summer rain.
- John Ballantine Gough
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
- Swedish proverb
I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains.
One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge,
but one misses a world of loveliness.
- Adeline Knapp
Like swift water, an active mind never stagnates. If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall.
If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.
- Steve Allen
Keeping in touch with childhood memories keeps us believing
in life’s simplest pleasures like a rainy afternoon,a swing set, and a giant puddle to play in.
- Chrissy Ogden
Even if you sit at the bottom of the stream, you cannot be a fish. If there is a continual going to the well, one day there will be a smashing of the pitcher.
God's Warrior
Watering the plants
If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants, keeping up its moisture content and gauging its need, the garden will get on very well.
- Henry Beston, Herbs and the Earth, 1935
Always leave extra time for unraveling the hose.
The Thirst is so great that many visualize Heaven as being in the Midst of Clouds.
The fountains, pools and streams in Shangri-La are ever full and never polluted.
Remember that the River of Forgetfulness flows by the Elysian Fields.
Drip, drip, drip ... your way to garden stewardship.
The end of the garden is at the end of the hose.
Gardens dream about water.
Water the soil not the plants.
Every gallon must work!
To a gardener there is nothing more exasperating than a hose that just isn't long enough.
- Cecil Roberts
How often it is that a garden, beautiful though it be, will seem
sad and dreary and lacking in one of its most gracious
features, if it has no water.
- Pierre Husson
