Lyall Watson Quotes

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

I love to watch the movement of light on water, and I love to play in rivers and lakes, swimming or canoeing. I am fascinated by people who work with water - fishermen, boatmen - and by a way of life that is dominated by water.

Without rain, there is no life.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my veins That summer day.

Water is the best of all things.

Without rain, there would be no life.

In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.

Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.

The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.

Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in many forms - liquid, vapor, ice, snow, fog, rain, hail. But no matter the form, it's still water.

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

Expect poison from the standing water.

And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.

The only water in the forest is the River.

The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.

Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.

I want to do the right things - I want to plant trees, I want to make sure that the indigenous forests are protected because I know, whatever happens, these are the forests that contain biodiversity, these are the forests that help us retain water when it rains and keep our rivers flowing, these are the forests that many future generations will need.

Our bodies are molded rivers.

Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.