“For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.” WorldYearsHas BeensBigsWaterMillionsAirThis WorldPlanetsOceanSeasonsSpeciesIncludingForestsWeatherAtmosphereTemperatureLiving OnGreat GiftsWoods And Forests Author:Rebecca Solnit
“But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament.” FeelsMayI CanBeautifulWaterStudyGreaterSummerSeasonsWinterStudiosSpreadPainterRejoiceRecallsSmall ThingsDrop Of WaterFirmament Author:Christopher Pearse Cranch
“I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest.” MotivationalWaterStageGrewGrew UpSeasonsPlantFarmsHarvest Book:Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt) Source: Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)
“Stop watering things that were never meant to grow in your life. Water what works, what's good, what's right. Stop playing around with those dead bones and stuff you can't fix, its over...leave it alone! You're coming into a season of greatness. If you water what's alive and divine, you will see harvest like you've never seen before. Stop wasting water on dead issues, dead relationships, dead people, a dead past. No matter how much you water concrete, you can't grow a garden.” PeopleIfsMatterPastGrowsStuffWaterIssuesAliveGreatnessDivineLike YouGardenSeasonsBonesConcreteHarvestDead PeoplePlaying Around Author:T. D. Jakes
“The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not come in due season, and the Indians are hungry, A Nootka wizard will make an image of a swimming fish and put it into the water in the direction from which the fish generally appear. This ceremony, accompanied by a prayer to the fish to come, will cause them to arrive at once.” IfsCausesWaterPrayerSeaRiversSeasonsFishesBritishDuesHungrySwimmingCeremonyWizardsColumbiaBritish Columbia Author:James G. Frazer
“Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous, Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water, Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter; And those she has least use for see her best, Their paths grown craven and circuitous, Their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest.” NeedsUseEarthWaterRaceVisionPathClearFlowerMountainSpringDaughterSeasonsExcitedMultipleFolds Book:The Less Deceived Source: The Less Deceived
“Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest.” YearsWaterMonthsVictorySeasonsElectionPlantSeedsHarvestReap Author:Edward Brooke