“In winter, you fed the birds; and in summer, do the same thing! In winter, you gave them bread; and in summer, give them water!” GivingWaterSummerBirdWinterBreadFeds Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“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
“By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It's big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors!” EnoughBigsWaterCarTablesWinterSettingOpeningSettingsSeatsThickLocksSheetsGlovesPassengersPaletteContainersPassenger Seat Author:Elizabeth Janeway
“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.” WorldEarthWaterDivineWallColdKissingShadowRoseWinterYellowBentAlasPondsSwans Author:Friedrich Holderlin
“The winter oak... is very useful in buildings but when in a moist place it takes in water to its centre... and so it rots. The Turkey oak and the beech both... take in moisture to their centre and soon decay. White and black poplar, as well as willow, linden, and the agnus castus... are of great service from their stiffness... they are a convenient material to use in carving.” WellsUseBlackWaterWhiteBuildingMaterialsWinterDecayCentreTurkeysConvenientOaksCarvingGreat ServiceMoistureStiffness Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us the creek is now able to carry off more flood water, but in the process we have lost our old willows where the owl hooted on a winter night and under which the cows switched flies in the noon shade. We lost the little marshy spot where our fringed gentians bloomed.” NeedsLittlesGovernmentAbleJobsNightLostProcessWaterEnvironmentalWinterSpotsShadeCowsEngineersFloodOur PastNoonOwlPasturesCreeksWinter Night Book:Round River Source: Round River
“Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.” WritingYearsLooksPersonsLongTwoHandsAgeSongWaterWhiteWalksFireFeetHairHundredHotWinterOld AgeUselessOrganizedWheelsChairsNinetyAlcoholicsCornBeardWhiskeyVigorousBucketsOutcastBeveragesHot WaterWhite HairRibald Author:Don Marquis
“Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.” WorldStatesLightWaterUnitedTalkingUnited StatesSummerLeavingWinterBest ThingsBottlesWater Bottles Author:Bill Nye