Best water & building Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in the shade... with stiff fingers and chilled bones... the water froze in little cakes all over the picture.”

Wells Littles Water Morning Sun Building Sitting Fingers Bones Shade Cake Afternoon Potters Sketching Old Buildings Chilled

Author:Howard Pyle

“The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.”

People Together Left Water Influence Building Bird Landscape Sand Reeds

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Already, China's world-leading solar industry provides water heating for 35 million buildings, and India's pioneering use of rainwater harvesting brings clean water to tens of thousands of homes.”

World Use Home Water Millions Building Industry India Clean China Harvest Clean Water Pioneering Heating Rainwater

Author:Christopher Flavin

“The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life.”

People Men World Want Real Lasts Grows Water Natural Modern Building Flow Architecture Circles Fake Real World Circle Of Life Fake World

Author:Eustace Conway

“Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.”

Want Should Action Faith Water Building Elements Stones Bases Foundation Very Good Fishes Good Actions

Author:Owen Feltham

“The theory which I would offer, is simply, that as the land with the attached reefs subsides very gradually from the action of subterranean causes, the coral-building polypi soon raise again their solid masses to the level of the water: but not so with the land; each inch lost is irreclaimably gone; as the whole gradually sinks, the water gains foot by foot on the shore, till the last and highest peak is finally submerged.”

Source: Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Varoius Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle, Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy from 1832 to 1836 by Charles Darwin

“Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.”

Courses Water Alive Building Wall Gas Electricity Steam

Author:Mason Cooley

“The winter oak... is very useful in buildings but when in a moist place it takes in water to its centre... and so it rots. The Turkey oak and the beech both... take in moisture to their centre and soon decay. White and black poplar, as well as willow, linden, and the agnus castus... are of great service from their stiffness... they are a convenient material to use in carving.”

Wells Use Black Water White Building Materials Winter Decay Centre Turkeys Convenient Oaks Carving Great Service Moisture Stiffness

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The Sacred isn't housed in a building or worn around your neck or something in the sky. The Sacred is the here and now we reside in, all breathing the same air, all imbibing the same water and made of the same earth with 'the life force' flowing through all living things.”

Made Earth Force Water Air Sky Building Sacred Breathing Holiness Necks Worn Living Things Here And Now Imbibing

Author:Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

“I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice.”

Thinking House Water Nice Land Building Woods Being Nice

Author:Ethan Canin

“Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.”

Matter Water Animal Building Plant Pollution Nursery Stagnant Mosquitoes Debris

Author:James Wright

“One of the reasons I think the population question is important, if we want to be as green as possible, any of our energy that is truly renewable is limited. Solar and wind are intermittent and they're so diffuse, it's difficult to harness them in a significant way. But one thing we could be doing is making it a law (like it is in Israel and Cyprus) to take every building eight stories or under and heat all of the water in those buildings with solar energy. It's absolutely simple and cheap technology.”

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