Best rain & rivers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

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Book:Nor any drop to drink

Source: Nor any drop to drink

“Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.”

Water Lord Pure Rain Rivers Humble Drinking Water Drink Water Water Resources Water Fountain World Water Day

Author:Francis of Assisi

“It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.”

Should Different Earth Grows Tree Dog Strange Grew Rain Rivers Horse Branches Lakes Different Place Strange Things Mules Magnolias Oxen

Book:The Yearling

Source: The Yearling

“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”

Philosophy Water Society Theory Activity Rain Rivers Anger Excellence Humble Tolerate Scorn Pipe Exalted Be Humble Plumber Plumbing Good Philosophy

Book:Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?

Source: Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?

“Boredom reigns on all levels. The rain is a welcome change. I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. I press my palm against the glass, imagining the drops on my skin, imagining where they started out, where they will go, feeling them like a river, rushing, combining, becoming something greater than how they started out.”

Feelings Levels Greater Becoming Rain Rivers Skins Presses Glasses Welcome Boredom Reign Palms Rushing Ponds Combining Creeks Becoming Something

Book:The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”

Stupid Willing Mouths Rain Flow Rivers Stones Streams Thrones Spills Rubies Jackasses

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the polarity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness and light, of matter and spirit.”

Two Matter Light Earth Spirit Night Animal Principles Darkness Ocean Rain Female Rivers Function Fundamentals Plant Males Obvious Receiving Light And Darkness Polarity

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to work for our disadvantage as for our advantage. It flows like the water of a river, it falls like rain, it is as impartial as the sea. It is as innocent of malice as it is of compassion.”

Source: Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings

“You won't find one fish in a million that has enough sense to come in when it rains.”

Enough Millions Sea Rain Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing

Book:One Minute, Please

Source: One Minute, Please

“Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.”

Water Walks Sea Daughter Rain Rivers Fishes Tales Boat Lakes Fishing Fisherman

Author:Daniel Lanois

“It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did... then someone will say, Let us arise, and go fishing.”

“I want to do the right things - I want to plant trees, I want to make sure that the indigenous forests are protected because I know, whatever happens, these are the forests that contain biodiversity, these are the forests that help us retain water when it rains and keep our rivers flowing, these are the forests that many future generations will need.”

Knows Want Needs Helping Happens Water Generations Tree Rain Rivers Plant Forests Right Thing Protected Indigenous Future Generation Whatever Happens Biodiversity Plant A Tree

Author:Wangari Maathai

“Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.”

“At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs in the mountains, and towards afternoon, the water descends wildly and she ravages all in its path, the madwoman. That is how death comes. Without our expecting it, and we cannot do a thing against it, brothers.”

Water Walks Path Fate Dog Brother Mountain Rain Rivers Stones Cat Dry Afternoon Expecting Noon Pebbles Cat And Dog

Author:Jacques Roumain

“Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.”

“Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.”

World Mother Water Rain Rivers Nurse Fountain Vines Fresh Water Water Fountain

Book:Ballads and Lyrics

Source: Ballads and Lyrics

“For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.”

Water Rain Garden Rivers Pool Mars Fountain Frogs Refreshments

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.”

People World States Running Fall Rain Rivers Chiefs Matrimony Inconvenience

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly when the concern for the environment appears far more intense than the concern for the human family.”

Humans Wells Animal Environment Rain Concern Rivers Plant Intense Forests Well Being Desert Lakes Socialist Human Family Lakes And Rivers Concern For The Environment

Author:Robert Sirico

“Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.”

Praying Rain Rivers Luck Fishing Flood Good Luck

Book:New Collected Poems

Source: New Collected Poems

“The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.”

Way States Moments Turns United United States Sea Dying Goes On Happenings Rain Rivers Fishes Forests Soil Poisoning Pesticides

Author:W. S. Merwin

“Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can put animals in factory farms and slaughter them as we like. We can over-fish the oceans. We can pollute the rivers. We can pollute the water and change climate. We are somehow superior to nature. We are somehow rulers of nature.”

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Author:Satish Kumar

“Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.”

Ifs Feels Enough Three Hours Chance Sea Rain Rivers Wake Up Forgiving Dear Fishes Boat Thanks Lakes Fishing Good Life Thanksgiving Thank You Dear God

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. That listens to water with a river flowing, or water falling in rain and is lifted up by that and listens to a wonderful singer, wonderful musicians, listens to maybe Duke Ellington or Frank Sinatra or listens to Odetta and Mary J. Blige. Yes, and thinks whoo! And thinks, yes, hmm, all right now. My soul has been washed. I feel better, I feel stronger.”

“In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be able to grow coffee you need rain, you need special kinds of soils that are found on hillsides, and that means you have to protect that land from soil erosion so you don't lose the soil. You also want to make sure that when the rains come you're going to be able to hold that water and have it go into the ground so that the streams and the rivers keep flowing and the ground is relatively humid for these plants.”

Want Needs Kind Mean Able Found Grows Water Loses Land Special Protect Rain Rivers Plant Coffee Streams Soil Kenya Erosion Soil Erosion

Author:Wangari Maathai

“For the rains and the rivers you need forests and you need to make sure these your forests are all protected, that there is no logging, that there is no charcoal burning and all the activities that destroy the forest. All this really needs to be done so that you can be able to grow good coffee, so that you can have an income, so that you can send your children to school, so that you can buy medicine, so that you can take them to hospitals, so that you can care for the women, especially mothers.”

Needs Children Done Care Able School Mother Grows Activity Rain Rivers Our Children Medicine Coffee Income Forests Burning Your Children Hospitals Protected Charcoal Logging Good Coffee

Author:Wangari Maathai

“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”

Poetry Voice Born Poet Grew Grew Up Rain Rivers Towns Forests Hills Rainy Day Raindrops Timber

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.”

Book Water Hurt Taken Food Drink Rain Rivers Alcohol Beer Moderation

Book:Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)

Source: Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)

“Love is as varied and unpredictable as the rain is: it comes in constant summer drizzles, or sudden, unforseen storms that make rivers burst their banks and Cornish fishing boats rock and spill and lose their crew in the Atlantic.”

Loses Love Is Rocks Summer Rain Rivers Constant Storm Boat Fishing Crew Unpredictable Spills Drizzle Fishing Boats

Author:Susan Fletcher

“When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: "Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter?" And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along.”

Ifs Bigs Voice Known Cry Wind Rain Rivers Train Dear Peter Echoes Jackets Collars Railroads

Book:The Town and the City

Source: The Town and the City

“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”

Source: Hemingway's Paris

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.”

“Expect poison from the standing water.”

Water Rain Standing Rivers Poison

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”

Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom

“Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.”

Source: Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.”

People Thinking Years Country Night Sound Walks Sun Quiet Late Rain Rivers Empty Passing Passings Hills Autumn Twilight Closets Coal Midnight Fog Mist Noon Dusk Cellars Attics Pantry

Book:THE OCTOBER COUNTRY

Source: THE OCTOBER COUNTRY

“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”

Ifs Want Doe Art Made Creative Clear Stupid Divine Willing Mouths Rain Flow Rivers Stones Block Manage Streams Dry Paradox Thrones Spills Rubies Creative Life Censoring Jackasses Dry Up

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrence risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. and: No one can stop the river of your hands, your eyes and their sleepiness, my dearest. You are the trembling of time, which passes between the vertical light and the darkening sky. and: From the stormy archipelagoes I brought my windy accordian, waves of crazy rain, the habitual slowness of natural things: they made up my wild heart.”

“I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.”

Knows Would Be Found Lost Left Secret Magic Mountain Rain Rivers Longing Cruelty Hills Hated Indifference Colour Sunset Thirst Thirsty Loveliness

Author:Jean Rhys

“As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places I have come to love, they have never been John Wayne, and they have never taken me to the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow. Deep in that part of my heart where artificial rain forever falls, that is still the line I want to hear.”

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Author:Joan Didion

“When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.”

Thinking Wells Past Beautiful White Tree Baby Grew Taste Rain Appreciate Rivers Jazz Definitions Warm Smell Brown Infinity Beautiful Things Rushing Squirrels Swollen Muzzle Chipmunks

Author:David Sedaris

“The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.”

Firsts Has Beens Two Sometimes Lasts Economy Wonderful Duty Rain Garden Rivers Foundation Firsts And Lasts

Author:Wendell Berry

“Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.”

Sun Rain Rivers Clouds Golden Rays Host Rain Clouds

Book:Prose and poetry

Source: Prose and poetry

“At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world’s rivers, between your bones and the chalk cliffs of Dover.”

World Moments Spiritual Universe Differences Rain Rivers Bones Forests Breathing Cosmos Cliffs Chalk Dover

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.”

“I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.”

“I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.”

“Constant dripping hollows out a stone.”

Inspirational Motivational Motivation Spirituality Water Business Hard Work Rain Rivers Stones Encouragement Constant Dripping Mental Strength Cool Motivational

Author:Lucretius

“The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.”

“If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.”

Ifs Years Would Be Grows Water Millions Rain Rivers Environmental Drinking Water Drink Water Water Resources Rivers And Water Water Is Life Water Fountain Rain Water

Author:Jan Erik Vold

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