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“My monumental netted sculptural environments move through time, animated by an ever-changing 'wind choreography,' making invisible air currents suddenly visible to the human eye. I make living, breathing pieces that respond to the forces of nature - wind, light, water.”

Humans Light Eye Moving Force Water Environment Pieces Air Movement Wind Currents Invisible Breathing Visible Animated Rough Times Choreography Forces Of Nature Human Eyes

Author:Janet Echelman

“An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. A swirl of water and a 'cloop!' and the May-fly was visible no more”

May Young Water Seeing Blood Sea Fashion Rivers Fishes Currents Boat Visible Lakes Fishing Affected Intoxicated Swirls

Book:The Life and Works of Kenneth Grahame: A Biography and Collection of Grahame’s Work

Source: The Life and Works of Kenneth Grahame: A Biography and Collection of Grahame’s Work

“And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.”

Fall Water Sea Sky Rivers Sight Depth Fishes Currents Boat Instant Streams Visible Lakes Fishing Silver Flash Lightning Rainbow Jewels Gleam Dainty

Author:John Buchan

“As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!”

Heart Water Sun Goodness Mercy Shining Visible Sinner Silver Rays Pool Stagnant Stagnant Water Tender Mercies

Author:Hosea Ballou

“[On New York:] ... a city rose before me. It was narrow and tall like a gothic temple, surrounded by water, and ... it suddenly appeared, as if with a slight push it detached itself out of the invisible into the visible.”

Ifs Water Cities New York Rose Invisible Visible Temples Tall Gothic Detached

Author:Nina Berberova

“I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.”

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“Just the way sound creates visible waves as it travels through a droplet of water, our "belief waves" ripple through the quantum fabric of the universe to become our bodies and the healing, abundance, and peace-or disease, lack, and suffering-that we experience in life. And just the way we can tune a sound to change its patterns, we can tune our beliefs to preserve or destroy all that we cherish, including life itself.”

Way Body Suffering Universe Belief Peace Sound Water Healing Disease Including Wave Patterns Preserves Abundance Visible Tunes Cherish Quantum Fabric Ripple Droplets

Author:Gregg Braden

“When I meet a new person, something has to be a little off for me to consider them beautiful. It could be crooked teeth, or veins in their skin that are a little too visible, or a really dramatic lazy eye. The first guy I ever kissed had a water head.”

Firsts Littles Persons Eye Beautiful Guy Water Skins Teeth Dramatic Visible Lazy Veins Crooked Crooked Teeth Lazy Eyes

Author:Amy Sedaris

“The people we talk about around water cooler at work or at school, they're all the people who are visible in our media whether it's a sports star or a movie star or a writer or a politician. They are people that have received media exposure and have become important to us in a way that's not realistic.”

People Way Important School Stars Sports Water Media Politician Visible Realistic Movie Star Exposure Sports Stars

Author:Crowder