“I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.”
Wallace Stegner
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“By means of water, we give life to everything.”
Koran
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“Filthy water cannot be washed.”
West African Proverb
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“Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“And Allah has created from water every living creature: so of them is that which walks upon its belly, and of them is that which walks upon two feet, and of them is that which walks upon four; Allah creates what He pleases; surely Allah has power over all things.”
Qur’an
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Christopher Morley
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“It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.”
Franklin P. Jones
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“A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.”
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes3
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“In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.”
Lao Tzu
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“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.”
Horace Mann
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“Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.”
African Proverb
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“A little water clears us of this deed.”
Skakespeare
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“All the water that will ever be is, right now.”
National Geographic
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“We have a little bit of everything. We have entertainment in the bar, a pool room and kids menus, we have a comedy club that has been going on for years and we always do something special with that on New Year’s Eve.”
Benny Hill
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“The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.”
Ismail Serageldin
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“Water links us to our neighbor in a way more profound and complex than any other.”
John Thorson
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“Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.”
Carl Sagan
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