Best Water Words
6300 Water quotes by 3450 unique authors
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Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring…
— Peter Mayle
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In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin…
— W S Merwin
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We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on…
— Robert Redford
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The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.
— Ismail Serageldin
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The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into…
— Gloria Steinem
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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves…
— U Thant
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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…
— Unknown Author
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I have never believed we had to choose between either a clean and safe environment or a growing economy. Protecting the health and safety of…
— William J. Clinton
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Every human should have the idea of taking care of the environment, of nature, of water. So using too much or wasting water should have…
— Dalai Lama
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lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics…
— Paul Farmer
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The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our…
— Robert Kennedy
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...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that provide them with…
— Robert Kennedy
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.
— Robert Kennedy
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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . The…
— Aldo Leopold
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War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion…
— Queen Noor of Jordan
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If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
— Dogen
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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
— Mencius
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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
— John Keats
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Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep.
— Sally-Ann Roberts
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...the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers...
— Zitkala-Sa
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The water here in Cardiff is much easier than in London, so for us it is more relaxing paddling here. This race is for us…
— Unknown Author
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A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.
— Laura Gilpin
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The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival…
— Unknown Author
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