... «you must remember to teach your children that the rivers are our brothers, and yours, and you must henceforth give the rivers the kindness that you would give my brother.»
Indian Chief Seattle's reply, in 1854, to The Great White Chief in Washington Franklin Pierce, who had made an offer to buy a large area of Indian land (this document was published by the United Nations for the celebration of World Environment Day in 1976).

Ethnographic Park and the Arnoia River, Allariz (Ourense, Galicia) - Spain.

«If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?»
(idem, ibidem)

[Originally posted on Mar 3rd, 2008]

Category: THE WATER

(The original portuguese post starts with an excerpt from a Miguel Torga's poem, that unfortunately I cannot translate).

A stream by Santa Maria das Júnias' Monastery, Montalegre (Montalegre means "Cheerful Mount").

[Originally posted on Feb 27th, 2008]

Category: THE WATER

[Originally posted on Feb 16th, 2008]

Category: THE WATER 

Light - shade; heat - coolness; green - white; outside - inside; movement - quietness; sound - silence ...

The gardens of Generalife (Granada, Spain) one of the oldest surviving Moorish gardens are part of a major cultural site in the UNESCO's World Heritage List - Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín.

Ponds and bowls, channels and fountains, spouts and sprinkles:
the water (movement - quietness, sound - silence) is the essence.

[originally posted on Feb 6th, 2008]

Category: THE WATER

Limestone and running water - Quinta das Lágrimas, Coimbra - Portugal

Granite and running water - Santa Maria das Júnias Monastery, Montalegre, Peneda-Gerês National Park - Portugal

[originally posted on Jan 25th, 2008]

Category: THE WATER

[...] and couldn't almost listen to that vegetable heart's all gratefulness:
- Thank you, Lady Rain..."
(adapted translation from Brasilian - José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Rosinha Minha Canoa)

[originally posted on Jan 7th, 2008]

Category: THE WATER