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“Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.”

Light Stars Water Stones Mirrors Edges Surface Evening Intimate Cracks Floating Breeze Ponds Reeds Vistas Lanterns Terrace Gloaming

Book:The Commoner

Source: The Commoner

“Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.”

Firsts Water Pay Attention Watches Baby Picks Red Fingers Smell Circles Pay Attention Concentration Pushing Salt Breeze Thumbs Ponds Hawks Salt Water

Author:Anna Quindlen

“The moon does not think to be reflected, nor does the water think to reflect, in the Hirosawa Pond.”

Thinking Doe Reality Water Moon Ponds

Author:Yamaoka Tesshu

“At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water”

Sound Water Ancient Frogs Plunge Ponds Sound Of Water

Author:Matsuo Basho

“Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.”

Water Silence Ancient Frogs Ponds Resonance

Author:Matsuo Basho

“The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But where, with winter come, am ITo find, alas, the floweres, and whereThe sunshineAnd the shadow of the world?Cold the walls standAnd the wordless, in the windThe weathercocks are rattling.”

World Earth Water Divine Wall Cold Kissing Shadow Rose Winter Yellow Bent Alas Ponds Swans

Author:Friedrich Holderlin

“Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.”

Thinking Looks Important Water Married Exciting Plenty Ponds Getting Married Microscopes

Author:Rose Macaulay

“The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.”

Firsts Wells I Can Book Ends Remember Water Clear Tree Grew Pleasant Over It Lilies Meadows Ponds Shady Clear Water Water Lily

Book:Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it.”

Water Cold Gentle Makeup Cream Soap Ponds Soap And Water

Author:China Machado

“One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no.”

“What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.”

Men Littles Suffering Water Can Do Rocks Cold Capable Draws Ice Occasions Heat Rising Injury Suspects Fury Ponds Latent Steep Cold Water

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“All over East Africa-indeed, all over Africa-it is normal for people to walk a kilometer or two or six for water. In more arid areas, people walk even greater distances, and sometimes all they find at the end is a pond slimy with overuse. More than 90 percent of Africans still dig for their water, and waterborne diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, bilharzia, and cholera are common. The bodies of many Africans are a stew of parasites. In some areas the wells are so far below the earth's surface that chains of people are required to pass up the water.”

“If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.”

Ifs Should Hard Running Heaven Water Born Teacher Teaching Sweet Streams Ponds Stagnant Running Water

Book:The Voice of the Silence

Source: The Voice of the Silence

“A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!”

May Happens Beautiful Fall Water Born Pure Rain Dirty Mud Lilies Ponds Water Lily

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan