It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the lan...d, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habita...ble. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water..., made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the rusty Pump pumps over your sweating face the clear... Water, cold, so cold! you cup your hands And gulp from them the dailiness of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grown onto every inch of plate, except Where the hinges let it move, were living things,... Barnacles, mussels, water weeds--and one Blue bit of polished glass, glued there by time: The origins of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The senseless drowned Have faces nobody would care to see,... But water loves those gradual erasures Of flesh and shoreline, greenery and glass,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Methinks King Richard and myself should meet With no less terror than the elements... Of fire and water, when their thundering shock At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »