Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale,
and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most
absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his
legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there
be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert,
try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical
professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded forever.
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most
absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his
legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there
be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert,
try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical
professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded forever.
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
A garden doesn't need this much water (with this view, the garden is secondary), but "there is magic in it." Birdbaths, fountains, fish ponds. . . I've settled for a pretty birdbath.
What water features do you have in your garden?
