Best water & creatures Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.”

Way Love Water Creatures Highest Settling Closest Contending

Book:Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching

“Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.”

Thinking Men Earth Water Sky Fool Creatures Paris Japan Swim Rome Creeps Iceland

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh? Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild's fondness?”

“The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.”

Voice Water Creatures Rivers

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.”

Heart Done Water Nature Sky Rocks Creatures Glad Lovely Heal Scar Invincible

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows.”

“There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.”

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned.”

Ifs World May Earth Found Water Sea Creatures Rivers Fishes Boat Features Lakes Fishing Deep Water

Author:Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

“It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures.”

Men World Understanding Interest Water Greater Sea Creatures Findings Rivers Clean Fishes Seeking Endless Boat Lakes Fishing Tranquility Inquisitive Flowing Water Wild Creatures Wild World

Book:Trout on a fly

Source: Trout on a fly

“Fish in the water represent pure potential. If the water is not clear, we do not know if they exist at all. To get them to bite something connected to a line and pull them into our world is managing a birth that brings these creatures from the realm of mysytery into the world of reality. It is a kind of creation.”

Ifs Knows World Kind Reality Water Lines Clear Sea Creation Birth Pure Creatures Rivers Fishes Connected Boat Realms Lakes Fishing Our World Bites

Author:Howell Raines

“It's an appreciation for life generally, every bit of life, the smallest creature that lives in the intestines of termites that make termite life possible - to the leaves that turn out oxygen and grab carbon dioxide and with water make simple sugars that feed much of the world. I mean, these are everyday miracles.”

World Mean Turns Bits Water Simple Creatures Miracle Everyday Appreciation Sugar Smallest Carbon Oxygen Carbon Dioxide Intestines

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.”

Firsts Use Form Used Water Rich Sea Ready Materials Creatures Spring Bottom Warm Surface Particles Minerals

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven asporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits.”

Long Ends God Humanity Heaven Water Lines Existence Forever Goes On Creatures Essentials Chosen Plague God Exists

Book:Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

“When I drink a Glass of water, it's thick and crawling with life. My mouth leads to the interior of my body - a caldron of disease, germs, and perversions of biology. I don't exist individually. I'm made of millions of living creatures, eating each other, decomposing, eating each other.”

Made Body Water Millions Drink Creatures Disease Eating Mouths Glasses Biology Thick Interiors Germs Living Creatures Crawling Perversion

Author:Michael Gira

“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.”

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

“We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.”

Thinking Stills Able Water Space Sea Birth Creatures Skins Filled Suits

Book:Voices from the Sky

Source: Voices from the Sky

“[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.”

Men Children Earth Water Sun Tree Flower Creatures Bird All Things Stones Relation Finals Fishes Cosmos Fishing Rainbow Insects

Book:Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

“It took a lot of water to down just that f-king bat's head, let me tell you. It's still stuck in my f-king throat, after all these years. People all over the world say, 'You're the guy who kills creatures? You still do it? You do it every night?' It happened f-king once, for Christ's sake.”

People World Years Stills Night Guy Christ Water Happened Kings Creatures Let Me Sake Stuck Throat Every Night Bats

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit those regions. The fish of the Great Lakes are laced with mercury from industrial plants, and fluoride from aluminum plants poisons the land and the people. Sewage from the population centers is mixed with PCBs and PBS in the watershed of the great lakes and the Finger Lakes, and the water is virtually nowhere safe for any living creatures.”

Source: All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life

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