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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 ~
~ 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. ~
~ 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? ~
~ 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 ~
~ 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 ~
~ We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one ~
~ That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water ~
~ In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria ~
~ 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 ~
~ A little water is a sea to an ant ~
~ It is wise to bring some water, when one goes out to look for water ~
~ If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water ~
~ 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 ~
~ We never know the worth of water till the well is dry ~
~ The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out ~
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