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“When skies above were not yet namedNor earth below pronounced by nameThere was water...”
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),It's always our self we find in the sea.”
“The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water to...”
“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”
“You are waterIm waterwere all water in different containersthats why its so easy to meetsomeday well evaporate together.”
“There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it m...”
“The water you kids were playing in, he said, had probably been to Africa and the North Pole. Genghis Khan or Saint Peter or even Jesus may have drunk it. Cleopatra might have bathed in it. Crazy Ho...”
“People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sightat least as the normally exper...”
“i know how it makes you feel...peaceful, permanent, unbroken”
“The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.”
“A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.”
“It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs and snows of our mountains. This is the beverage we should drink. It should be our...”
“All water is holy water.”
“The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.”
“The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, l...”
“War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It...”
“I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.”
“When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky...”
“People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.”
“When doing sports... on the water, it's crucial to stop aging by protecting your skin.”
