“At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims - gets used to the water - the wave grows small. If we pull the child away when the wave is high, he never sees that, never learns how to swim and remains afraid. If he gets a chance to feel strong, in control, that's called coping. When he copes, he feels better.” IfsFeelsFirstsChildrenUsedStrongGrowsWaterChanceRemainsWaveSwimScareFeel BetterCoping Author:Jonathan Kellerman
“The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and drugs. The one great difference is that by now the revolution has deprived the mass of consumers of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water. Air access remains the only necessity that the average user can still get for himself, and the revolution has imposed a heavy tax on that by way of pollution. Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.” WayKindStillsWaterDifferencesTechnologyEconomyAirMilitaryRevolutionDrugTaxesWeaponsMassIndependentRemainsTradeFinalsDefeatAverageHeavyAccessConsumersClothingsUsersPollutionShelterConsumerismConquestItemsDeprivedNoveltyFurThoroughOrnamentsOverconsumptionStaples Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“Vacuum stands and remains a mathematical space. A cube placed in a vacuum would not displace anything, as it would displace air or water in a space already containing those fluids.” WaterSpaceAirRemainsMathematicalFluidVacuumsContainingCubes Author:Roger Bacon
“The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.” IfsBodyEarthLeftWaterAirPhilosophicalRemainsBest ThingsIngredientsAir And Water Author:Novalis
“The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.” MayStarsWaterChangedMoonReflectionRemainsUnityStreams Author:Rumi
“Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.” WayWaterSolutionsRemainsSurfaceAlcoholIceEach DaySugarSaltLiquorFreezingMapleHeating Author:Bill Mollison
“And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.” HumanityLiteratureLanguageNationsWaterPerfectBrainGeniusGloryMarkRemainsPracticalsKingdomsSpiteCivilizedStomachIrelandClosetsGadgetsEnglish LiteratureCivilized Nations Author:James Joyce
“The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Intellectuals plan their repose; lovers are ashamed to rest. The lover is always alone. even surrounded by people; like water and oil, he remains apart. The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover get nothing. He's mocked by passion. Love is like musk. It attracts attention. Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.” PeopleMenLoveGivingWholeRunningPassionLostWaterLove IsAttentionPlansTroubleTreeSeaAdviceHe ManLoversIntellectualRemainsOilAshamedShadeRunning AwayDrowningReposeShowing OffLove Is LikeLove PassionGiving AdviceGetting LostMuskAlways AloneRomantic Passion Book:Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey
“Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the jug; go, seek the water!” KnowsWorldLongPlayRealityFormWaterForeverShapesRemainsPassing AwayJugs Author:Rumi