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“I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Water Gone Honestly Suits Faster Tied Rushing

Author:Ryan Lochte

“If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface so startling and violent and exhilarating that you too will suddenly, and always thereafter, believe in monsters.”

Source: The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors

“I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.”

Book Light Games Sides Water Born Land Blue Forests Evening Rushing Ridges Evening Light Rushing Water

Book:The Crossing

Source: The Crossing

“Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.”

People Knows World Should Sports Water Know How Wonderful Married Institutions Civilized Swim Swimming Spoil Being Married Rushing

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water; water that seems alive, always rushing past yet never going, always the same yet ever different. Was it perhaps similar feelings of awe that gave rise to the first animistic religions, the worship of the elements and the mysteries of nature over which there was no control? Only when our prehistoric ancestors developed language would it have been possible to discuss such internal feelings and create a shared religion.”

Firsts Has Beens Different Feelings Seems Past Language Water Alive Mystery Elements Worship Awe Internals Ancestor Responding Rushing Chimpanzees Prehistoric Mystery Of Nature

Author:Jane Goodall

“There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.”

Joy Water Imagination White Environmental Thrones Oxygen Rushing Hydrogen Elementals Glaciers Rushing Water

Book:Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

Source: Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III