Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.

Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

Water can communicate. It's communicating with us, it's communicating with other water.

Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.

From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For awhile till it sleeps In its own little Lake. And thence at departing, Awakening and starting, It runs through the reeds And away it proceeds, Through meadow and glade, In sun and in shade, And through the wood-shelter, Among crags in its flurry, Helter-skelter, Hurry-scurry.

Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like.

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.

Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.

Water is life is love is life is water.

Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.

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

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

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.

The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.

You have to get into the water and learn against what seems to be the law gravity to float and dancing, or athletics takes you years before you develop a skill. But if you work at it, practicing daily, you can enable your body to do things that are utterly impossible to an untrained physic.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

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.

It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.

Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.