Sarah Dessen Quotes

All things that come into being and grow are earth and water.

There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.

Without rain, there is no life.

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

No water, no life. No blue, no green.

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

I mean, everything that is upon this earth, even from a worm or a caterpillar that blossoms into a butterfly, you know, these things are just amazing.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a monk who lives in a temple on Jusan Pond surrounded only by nature.

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you’ve got to get out and see God’s beauty of the world.

Without rain, there would be no life.

Old pond, leap-splash - a frog.

Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.

Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

The ocean is the lifeblood of our world.

The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.

Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.

By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.

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.

It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.