Alice Oswald Quotes

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

Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.

Without rain, there is no life.

The rain begins with a single drop.

The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds and blow out from within them, except for the great sea, nor would the streams of rivers nor the rain-water in the sky exist but for the sea ; but the great sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

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

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

I love the rain and everything about the monsoons!

Without rain, there would be no life.

We forget we’re mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.

The solution to our water problems is more rain.

The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain

The battle is one between the power of chaos, Marxism and destruction…and the powers of order, Christian civilization and the upliftment of the people.

Pray for rain!

Better 100 years of tyranny than one day of anarchy.

The tensions between order and liberty, between opportunity and social justice will always be there, but that’s freedom.

The only natural society is a society of liberty and equality.

Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.

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.

I woke to the sound of rain.

Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.