Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.

Best is water.

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.

I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?

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

If you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.

Water is the first principle of everything.

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

The mill will never grind with water that is past.

Far water cannot quench near fire.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.