“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?” HeartLongDoneEnoughLeftWaterAirCryCreaturesLongingCurseNativeFlashNative AmericanSoarGrandchildrenAcheEaglesNeedlesAmerican IndianFondnessNative American WisdomSalmonMy GrandchildrenGreat SpiritNative AmericaNative American IndianGreat Native AmericanNative American EarthIndian WisdomNative WisdomNative American Indian InspirationalHeart AcheNative American Dream Author:Chief Dan George
“A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is steady streams that bring thick and needed crops. In the agriculture of the soul that has to do with nurturing attributes, flash floods are no substitute for regular irrigation.” LittlesSoulWaterFlowerNeededSpringStreamsDrySubstitutesAttributesSteadyThickFlashFloodAgricultureCropsNurturingIrrigationFlash Floods Author:Neal A. Maxwell
“Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.” LoveTwoWarBodyLightStarsWaterLove IsAirHoneyFlashLightningDrowningVoyages Book:Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970) Source: Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)
“A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.” IfsHeartTurnsWaitingWaterSilenceFireViolenceCreationTerribleRingsForestsBurningInstantLakesPoolFearfulFlashUnafraidBurning Heart Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
“And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.” FallWaterSeaSkyRiversSightDepthFishesCurrentsBoatInstantStreamsVisibleLakesFishingSilverFlashLightningRainbowJewelsGleamDainty Author:John Buchan
“If you can but give to the fainting soul at your door a cup of water from the wells of truth, it shall flash back on you the radiance of God. As you save, so shall you be saved.” IfsGivingWellsSoulTruthWaterDoorsSavedCupsFlashRadianceFainting Author:Moncure D. Conway
“The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,is not that it all fits together like clockwork--for it doesn'tbut that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the world's water and weather, the world's nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.” WorldTogetherBeautifulGivenWaterNatureFreedomFitTerribleFlowLipsCreatorWeatherGiantsSoilWildernessFlashBugsNourishmentSapClockworkDazzleCreeksBirdsongDragonfliesMinnowsPizzazz Author:Annie Dillard