Leonardo da Vinci Water Quotations

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

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

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.

In time and with water, everything changes.

Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.