The physical properties of soil are affected by soil-water interaction, which makes pore water in soil have a completely different physical state from that of free water. As one of the most abundant minerals in the crust of the Earth, quartz widely exists in many kinds of rocks and soils. The interaction between quartz particles and water greatly affects the engineering characteristics of rocks and soils. To study the interaction between quartz paticle and water, nuclear magnetic resonance technology has been used to detect the T1 distribution curves at different temperatures and the T1-T2 correlation spectra at room temperature for unsaturated compacted quartz particles. Through the analysis of T1/T2 distribution curve, it is found that the T1/T2 ratio at the peak point is about 6.31.With BPP model, the rotational characteristic time of pore water molecules in unsaturated quartz sample was calculated which is much longer than that of free water, indicating that the mobility of pore water in sample is greatly depressed. With Korb model, the characteristic residence time and affinity of adsorbed water on the surface of quartz particles were calculated. It indicates that the water molecules move 4.2x109 steps on the sand surface before leaving the quartz surface, indicating that the quartz particle has a large hydrophilic or binding property to water molecule. The varation of T1 distribution curve with temperature has been analyzed based on Arrhenius theorem. It is found that the adsorption activation energy of surface adsorbed water on quartz particle was 6.4 kcal/mol, which was much higher than that of surface adsorbed water on clay particles. The result indicates that the binding effect of quartz particles on water molecules is greater than that of clay particles. This is mainly because the a large number of hydrogen bonds between silanol group on the surface of quartz particles with the adsorbed water, which makes the quartz particles have a great binding effect on the adsorbed water on the surface.