“The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.” PeopleTogetherLeftWaterInfluenceBuildingBirdLandscapeSandReeds Author:Zaha Hadid
“Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.” FeelsHumansSoulWaterInfluenceCreationEpicMajestyHuman Soul Book:Traits of American Life Source: Traits of American Life
“There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane, a variety of opal. So it is with many a Christian. Till the floods of adversity been poured over him, his character appears marred and clouded by selfishness and worldly influences. But trials clear away the obscurity, and give distinctness and beauty to his piety.” GivingCharacterChristianWaterClearInfluenceAdversityTrialsVarietySelfishnessFloodWorldlyTransparentPietyObscurityMineralsCloudedOpal Author:Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
“I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.” ThinkingWayGivingKindMayLittlesLongDifferentEnoughSeemsCertainWaterConsciousnessInfluenceObjectsDepthCeaseIntenseImpulseVisibleLakesLayersTransparent Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce