The great watershed of modern poetry is French more than English.

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from you know love or peace of mind.

When resources are degraded we start competing for them whether it is at the local level in Kenya where we had tribal clashes over land and water or at the global level where we are fighting over water oil and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

If you do your research on hot springs all over the world they're usually places of peace. People even in warring nations and so forth they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Let there be work bread water and salt for all.

The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.