Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Water is life’s mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Thomas Fuller

Don’t you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it’s in the sea, and it’s homesick, and bound to make its way home someday

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.
William Wordsworth

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference

A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
Henry David Thoreau

Water which is too pure has no fish

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
Annie Dillard

A little water is a sea to an ant

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
Joseph Conrad

Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.

Water flows uphill towards money.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
Henry David Thoreau

Keep your head above water

The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.
Isak Dinesen

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

Filthy water cannot be washed.
African Proverb

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
Loren Eiseley

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It’s always our self we find in the sea.

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.
H.M. Tomlinson

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country.

Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Joseph Conrad

Praise the sea; on shore remain.
John Florio

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
Blaise Pascal

The great sea makes one a great sceptic.
Richard Jefferies

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Robert Henri

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began.
William Hazlitt

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
James Russell Lowell

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen’s cafe.
Joseph W. Beach

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
George Herbert

The sea hath no king but God alone.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti