We designate the spirit of the well as 'she' because in most of her personifications she takes a female form, though not invariably. She appears in many guises - ghost, witch, saint, mermaid, fairy, and sometimes in animal form, often as a sacred fish - and her presence permeates well lore, and indeed water lore generally.

Colin Bord

Stichwörter: water saint mermaid fairy witch ghost holy-well holy-wells sacred-fish wa-ter-divinity water-god water-goddess



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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale. So many things have been shown so to me on these banks, so much light has illumined me by reflection here where the water comes down, that I can hardly believe that this grace never flags, that the pouring from ever-renewable sources is endless, impartial, and free.

Annie Dillard

Stichwörter: books inspiration nature grace water mysticism exhilaration



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…have poets write about you as if you are alive. Scientifically, it is absolutely true, you are alive. You have a pulse, the waves, and a metabolism, the food chain. A personality, a character, a consciousness, and a sense of purpose…try this- turn into spray, spin rainbows…wear down entire mountains and dump them in layers…gently surround marina sea grass twice a day, protecting and feeding thousands of crabs, ducks, and geese…fill human eyes with warm salt brine at least once a month…

Becoming Water

Susan Zwinger

Stichwörter: life water tears ocean



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If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature.

Federico Chini

Stichwörter: life nature water secret sea essence encounters private-life



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Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears.
But yet it is our trick, let shame say what it will. when these are gone the women will be out!
Adieu my lord, I have a speech of fire that fane would blaze,
But that this folly doubts it.

William Shakespeare

Stichwörter: death sorrow water tears



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Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.

Michael K. Simpson

Stichwörter: sun water property air



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Underwater, bubbles erupted before my eyes as a swift hand snatched my arm and pulled me to the surface. I gasped for air, coughing and gagging at the amount of water I sucked into my lungs by pure shock. What was up with me and breathing in water? I needed to grow some gills or something.

Laura Kreitzer

Stichwörter: humor water fantasy fiction funny timeless-series kreitzer gills



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The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

Raymond Carver

Stichwörter: water



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Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

Ann Brashares

Stichwörter: vision world heaven yearning water stillness beautiful alternate-universe lost-city



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Like any stage of the hydrologic process, we have our own peculiarities, our organs making us nothing more than water pools or springs of bizarre shape, filled with pulsing tubes and chambers.

Craig Childs

Stichwörter: water



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