“To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root”
Chinese Proverbs
“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
William Shakespeare
“Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.”
William Arthur Ward
“My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; / Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: / What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.”
Bible
“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep”
“The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone”
Japanese Proverb
“I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: / Of April, May, of June, and July-flowers. / I sing of maypoles, hock-carts, wassails, wakes, / Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.”
Robert Herrick
