1,262 Quotes About Water

The water vapor accumulated in the upper atmosphere for so long that when the surface finally cooled enough for the rains to touch down, they poured in catastrophic torrents for thousands of years.

Waves that beautiful are rare. That is the thing about the water, it is not yours to control, you are at the mercy of nature.

Now come the floods. They charge down atavistic canyons drinking furiously out of thunderstorms, coming one after the next with vomited boulders and trees pounding from one side of a canyon to the other, sometimes no more than hours apart. Sometimes a hundred years apart. Sometimes a thousand. The floods always come.

When you place your hand in moving water, you will feel the curves of power looping your bones, addressing your skin with logarithmic sways. Magnify that ten or twenty thousand times and you will be killed by the force. Then your body will know.... But pay attention in that moment and you will feel the intelligence of water upon you. It will tell stories of itself against your body in boils and surges and vacancies.

By the shore at night the vague tumultuous sphere, swayed by an influence mightier than itself, gave voice, which drew my soul to utter speech for speech.

Imagine a secure interstate water system capable of transporting large amounts of water from those areas most vulnerable to flooding, to where the water is needed.

A secure interstate water system would be a massive public works project that would employ perhaps hundreds of thousands of people for at least ten to twenty years.

Many waters cannot quench love,' she whispered. 'Neither can floods drown it.

Water becomes filthy with desire as it gains speed into a flood. It cannot move in a straight line.... There is too much craving and energy when water moves. It wants out.