"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."

~ Lao Tzu

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."

~ Hal Borland

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

~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God."

~ George Washington Carver

Water curtain

"Man's heart away from nature becomes hard."

~ Standing Bear

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

~ Lady Bird Johnson

Tulips by IN CHERL KIM

"The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness"

~ John Muir

Enchanting Silence

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

Standing In The Rain