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Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong

Lao-Tzu

Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.

Douglas Adams

The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it.

William Shakespeare

The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the water. What is water, That pours silver, And can hold the sky?

Hilda Conkling

Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society.... It became part of the moral and mental legacy parents passed on to their children

M. Meyer

Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country...But because water belongs to no one - except the people - special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers

Ralph Nader, 1971

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one

Jacques Cousteau

That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water

Shakespeare

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria

David Auerbach

Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Water which is too pure has no fish

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

Water flows uphill towards money.

Ivan \r\n\r\nDoig

Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself.

LINDA HOGAN

The only books that separate ground water and surface water are our law books.

Duane Smith

Water is the lifeblood of our bodies, our economy, our nation and our well-being

Stephen Johnson

To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature, and life itself

Masaru Emoto

Til taught by pain, men really know not what good water is worth.

Don Juan

Don't empty the water jar until the rain falls.

Philippine proverb

Water flows humbly to the lowest level.Nothing is weaker than water,Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong,Nothing surpasses it.

Lao-Tzu

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference

Rachel Carson

A little water is a sea to an ant

Afghan Proverb

It is wise to bring some water, when one goes out to look for water

Marleen

If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water

JAN ERIK VOLD

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips

JEAN GIRAUDOUX

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