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Hello Folks,

        Came across this quote while sorting through lesson samples in my
studio. I use this when I coordinate lessons with the third grade
curriculum on water. It is attributed to daVinci, translated from Italian.

        "Water is the driver of nature...So one might say
        that it changes into as many natures as are the
        different places through which it passes.
        And as the mirror changes with
        the color of its objects so this changes with the
        nature of the place where it passes: health-giving,
        harmful, laxative, astringent, sulphurous, salt,
        sanguine, depressed, raging, angry, red, yellow,
        green, black, blue, oily, thick, thin.
        Now it brings a confligration, then it extinguishes;
        is warm and is cold; now it carries away, then it
        sets down, now it hollows out, then it raises up,
        now it tears down, then it establishes,
        now it fills up and then it empties,
        now it rises and then it deepens, now it speeds
        and then lies still...now it nourishes and
        and then does the contrary, now it is salt and
        then is without savor...With time everything changes

                Leondardo daVinci

        Ann-on-y-mouse in Columbus

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