We Americans are churning through fresh water at an alarming and unsustainable rate. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“It was midsummer, but fresh water from the gasping sprinklers made the lawn glitter like spring.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“Humans are like an ever flowing river of fresh water. We stagnate if we stop progressing.” — Arshad Wahedna Copy Share Image
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water... — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Silence is a beautiful fresh water tank to raise the trout of thought. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Good food, fresh water, an occasional sweet and someone to care for. That's what everyone should have.” — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used as a floating object that dispensed fresh water, if only it were lighter and shaped like a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give… — Thomas Noon Talfourd Copy Share Image
At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise… — Crazy Horse Copy Share Image
By 2030 the demand for resources will create a crisis with dire consequences. Demand for food and energy will jump 50% by… — John Beddington Copy Share Image
“the encyclical also deals with poverty, the destruction of biodiversity, the pollution of fresh water and the oceans, sustainable food, extractive industries,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
“A city is half beast and half machine, with arteries of fresh water and veins of foul, nerves of telephone and electrical… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed… — William Ashworth Copy Share Image
There's less mystery in the sea than there is in fresh water. If you look at television there's lots of documentaries on… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
The development of exponential technologies like new biotech and AI hint at a larger trend - one in which humanity can shift… — Arvind Gupta Copy Share Image
“Certainly there were gars in there that had bitten children and pulled swimming dogs under for their afternoon meals. They didn’t call… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
The brawny mix of extraordinary sights-weather, politics, races, imagination, corruption and athletics. They clash and mingle here where the broad prairies that… — Andrew H Malcolm Copy Share Image
“Life and water are inseparable. Three quarters of the earth's surface is covered by water, just as three quarters of your body… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
“The mythical Thunderbird, in one form or another, was held in awe by practically all of the Indian tribes. On the Great… — W. Ben Hunt Copy Share Image
My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That… — Blaize Clement Copy Share Image
“4. Man is neither Good-natured nor Bad-natured according to Su Shih (So-shoku).[FN#164] The difficulty may be avoided by a theory given by… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Neleus... The son of Poseidon! A birth that came from the mate of a god and a mortal woman. Not plain at… — Katerina Kostaki Copy Share Image
I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“But the Count hadn’t the temperament for revenge; he hadn’t the imagination for epics; and he certainly hadn’t the fanciful ego to… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
“The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Crutzen wrote up his idea in a short essay, “Geology of Mankind,” that ran in Nature. “It seems appropriate to assign the… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“For fuck’s sake.” Kavin leaned over and kissed me. Again, it was a surprise. Our lips instantly opened, and his tongue swept… — James Cox Copy Share Image
Illinoisans know that we need to protect our environment, to invest in our future, to make sure that our children have clean… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“A piece of bread, some fresh water, the shadow of a tree and your eyes, my beloved. No sultan is happier than… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
This is what I love about the Kimberley... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your… — Malcolm Douglas Copy Share Image
“That will be so amusing! You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image