Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.

Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.

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

The mill will never grind with water that is past.

When you drink water, think of its source.

Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.

Best is water.

What water gives, water takes away.

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

Water is the first principle of everything.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

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

There’s folks ’ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.