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It's war. Don't leave anything behind for your enemy to use. Scorch the earth, kill the cattle, foul the water. — Lesley Livingston

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode. — John Burroughs

The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water. — Heraclitus

You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman. — Elizabeth Montagu

All elements have a counterweight. Fire is the counterweight of water. Air is the counterweight of earth. The counterweight of chaos is the soul. — Holly Black

the mightiest and most extensive mountain range on Earth was - mostly - under water. — Bill Bryson

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle. — David Suzuki

Midway between land and water, freshwater marshes are among the most highly productive ecosystems on earth, rivaling the tropical rainforest. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

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. — Jean Giraudoux

Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron. — Arthur Golden

And if the world has forgotten you,
say this to the stable earth: I run.
Tell the rushing water: I exist. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Water covers two-thirds of the Earth. I cover the rest. — Deion Sanders

There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems. — Chanakya

My air,my fire,my water,my earth,my soul. — Brittainy C. Cherry

I wouldn't take him back if he were the last man on earth. I'm 'if he caught fire, and I had a glass of water, I'd drink it slowly and watch' done. — R.K. Lilley

(voice) ... it was honey, smoke, crystal, fire, wind, water, earth. — Anne Rivers Siddons

I think talent is like a water table under the earth - you tap it with your effort and it comes through you. — Natalie Goldberg

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth. — Thich Nhat Hanh

One could say lightning is the marriage of fire and air." "One could say mud is the marriage of water and earth," he said dismissively. — Sherry Thomas

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish ... because it draws water as its breath instead of air. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth. — Linji Yixuan

To use color well is as difficult as for a fish to pass from water to air or earth. — Andre Lhote

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. — Barry Lopez

The tutor's eyelids drooped; his thoughts drained out of his face like water seeping into earth. — Patricia A. McKillip

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. — Joseph Conrad

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite. — John C. Reilly

Fire wants to burn
Water wants to flow
Air wants to rise
Earth wants to bind
Chaos wants to devour
Cal wants to live — Cassandra Clare

Fish play in the water
birds play in the sky
ordinary beings play on the earth
sublime beings play in display. — Thinley Norbu

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud. — Rodney Dangerfield

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language. — Tom Robbins

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters. — Norman Ralph Augustine

The miracle is walking on the earth, not walking on water or fire. The real miracle is walking on this earth. — Thich Nhat Hanh

People are shaped by the earth and water around them. — Lisa See

There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic. — Louis Diat

Gray stones for Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, and glass for Candor. — Veronica Roth

We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share. — Maya Angelou

Water drunk more reverently still, from the hands or from the spring itself, diffuses within us the most secret salt of earth and the rain of heaven. — Marguerite Yourcenar

If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I love your feet
because they have
wandered over
the earth and through
the wind and water
until they brought
you to me. — Pablo Neruda

Their coupling was the coupling of the sea and the sky, of the rain and the parched earth. Of night and day, wind and water. — Anita Diamant

Life and death are natural dualities. Like water and fire, wind and earth. We do not control them, we never will. — Oumar Dieng

If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon. — Johannes Kepler

Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise. — Terry Pratchett

Bodies fall towards the earth as it is in the nature of the earth to attract bodies, just as it is in the nature of water to flow. — Brahmagupta

Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earth's most precious gift. — Janine Benyus

But water doesn't care for human sorrows. It flows without slowing or quickening its pace in the darkness of the earth, where only stones will hear. — Emmi Itaranta

Water is born from the death of air, earth from the death of water, fire from the death of earth, air from the death of fire. — Rosamund Hodge

This earth is seventy percent water. Hard not to walk into it. — Jacqueline Woodson

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings. — George Bernard Shaw

Remember this when you are queen," he whispered hoarsely. "I moved the earth and the water for you. — Catherynne M Valente

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of
softness overcoming hardness. — Lao-Tzu

My God, my God
May there be no end
To the sea, to the sand,
The splash of the water,
The glow of the sky,
The prayer of man — Hannah Senesh

The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water. — Rachel Carson

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal. — Laozi

Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life. — Debasish Mridha

Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years we water it with blood and tears ... — Nancy Holder

For we are all sprung from earth and water — Xenophanes

Earth and water, soil and stone, oaks and elms and willows, they were here before us all and will still remain when we are gone. — George R R Martin

Crossing the Fens by boat there comes the realisation that water not earth or sky is the natural element in this landscape. — Stephanie Green

The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain! — Archibald MacLeish

Both the teardrop and the tempest are made of water, making it the most yielding and most destructive force on Earth. — Fiona Paul

The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water. — Morihei Ueshiba

Earth, water, fire, and wind. Where there is energy there is life. — Suzy Kassem

Each Well was linked to one of the five elements: Aether, Earth, Water, Wind, or Fire. — Susan Dennard

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water — Karl Von Frisch

Elaine's lows were low, but her highs were...well her highs were magic that transformed mere earth, air, and water into the breath of life. — Mark Adam Kaplan

The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth
And then returning to earth, forever alternating. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In Elementary Music The Relation Of Earth To The Sphere of Water is 4 to 3, As There Are In The Earth Four Quarters of Frigidity to Three of Water. — Robert Fludd

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was. — Pearl S. Buck

It is not any common earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye
That you and I will fare. — Rudyard Kipling

For every drop of water you waste, you must know that somewhere on earth someone is desperately looking for a drop of water! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

By constant dripping, water hollows stone,
A signet-ring from use alone grows thin,
And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn. — Ovid

When skies above were not yet named
Nor earth below pronounced by name
There was water ... — Carol K. Mack

One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them. — Mahavira

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

I saw you dancing out the ocean
Running fast along the sand
A spirit born of earth and water
Fire flying from your hands — Elton John

What makes comet wine so good is that the water-process detaches
itself from the earth and thus brings about an altered state in the
planet. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me. — Amy Hempel

Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things. — William Kamkwamba

Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive. — Sandra Postel

The new earth will be like Eden..the deserts will gush with water ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish. — Paul P. Enns

All things are formed of patterns, from a single blade of grass to the most majestic of mountains: air and water, fire and earth; Life itself. — Melissa McPhail

I am roots in the earth. I am water that flows. I am grounded. I am Watcher. — Veronica Wolff

65It is God who sends water down from the sky and with it revives the earth when it is dead. There truly is a sign in this for people who listen. — Anonymous

The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth. — Khalil Gibran

Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars. — Frans Lanting

Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox. — Ralph Kiner

Until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature? — Eloise Lownsbery

My plan is to open five restaurants based on the five elements in Chinese philosophy: wood, water, fire, earth and metal. — Arthur Potts Dawson

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn ... — David R. Brower

The Earth has ocean of water and the sky has ocean of thoughts. — Rajesh Walecha

No sane person resists the smell of the soil when sprinkled with water,
Especially the smell of the intercourse between earth and rain. — Nomthandazo Tsembeni

The kiss surrounded her like air, held her up like water, supported her like the earth and burned her like fire. — Tiffany Reisz

Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing. — Ming-Dao Deng

Smitt walked up next to James and watched the planet slowly grow larger. They say the water used to be so blue you could see it from space. — Wesley Chu

He had come to the conclusion that, as the earth consisted of land and water, so human life was made up of eatings and beatings. — Rabindranath Tagore