Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Water’s never clumsy.

All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit – the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Religions get lost as people do.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Water is my drink.

Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.

Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

I love the sea.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

Water is life, and clean water means health.