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We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will be the critical issue

Mostafa Tolba

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man

Stewart Udall

I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one "owns" water. It might rise on your property, but it just passes through. You can use it, and abuse it, but it is not yours to own. It is part of the global commons, not "property" but part of our life support system

Marq de Villiers

Wisdom understands that in a world of ecological interconnectedness there is no such things as ìaway.î We donít throw things ìaway,î we simply put them someplace where they defile the land, foul the water, pollute the air or change the earthís atmosphere

Brian Walsh & Sylvia Keesmaat

Water is the driver of Nature

Leonardo da Vinci

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself

Laura Gilpin

All the water that will ever be is, right now

National Geographic

{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

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, \"Northern Lights,\" Autumn 1990

A little water clears us of this deed

Skakespeare

To trace the history of a river or a raindrop…is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again

Gretel Ehrlich

To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things

John Haines

Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land

Luna Leopold

A river is the report card for its watershed

Alan Levere

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together

Barry Lopez

To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the same -- follow a river. The river is the original forest highway. It is nature's own Wilderness Road

Edwin Way Teale

My soul is full of longing For the secret of the Sea, And the heart of the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry

Rachel Carson

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water

Christopher Morley

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind

Leonardo da Vinci

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny

Carl Schurz

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men

Charles Baudelaire

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao Tzu

Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.

Government

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

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