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“Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the Rays of Light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve Lines? And doth not the gradual condensation of this Medium extend to some distance from the Bodies, and thereby cause the Inflexions of the Rays of Light, which pass by the edges of dense Bodies, at some distance from the Bodies?”

Source: Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

“Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had been before.”

Water Color Creating Mediums New Life Joining Mixing Watercolors

Author:Joseph Raffael

“When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.”

May Water Consciousness Clear Wind Pure Mountain Moved Mediums Realization Lakes Ripe Serene Clear Water Mountain Lakes

Book:A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen

Source: A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen

“Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.”

“The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.”

“The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.”

Looks Kind Littles Light Bits Water Produce Strange Little Bit Models Glasses Complicated Invention Mediums

Author:Peter Higgs

“Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.”

Stories Shows Body Water Mediums

Author:Rumi

“... laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants only to dispose toxic sludge on land. We "clean" water only to disperse toxic-laced solids on farmland or landfills. Pollution control becomes a kind of giant shell game by which we move pollutants between air, water, groundwater, and land.”

Source: Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr