These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

Best is water.

The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.

No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.

Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.

Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.

Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Water is the first principle of everything.

There is no small pleasure in sweet water.

Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?