“Is it possible to take river water back after it has mixed into the sea? The river and the sea are united and one now.”
“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”
“MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,— Say, sea, Take me!”
“That was the river, this is the sea.”
“in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled.”
“And I feel like the Queen of Water. I feel like water that transforms from a flowing river to a tranquil lake to a powerful waterfall to a freshwater spring to a meandering creek to a salty sea to raindrops gentle on your face to hard, stinging hail to frost on a mountaintop, and back to a river again.”