Rainwater Quotes

• If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.

  Bill Mollison

  One Thing, Ifs

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• Take rainwater kept for several years, and mix a sextarius of this water with a pound of honey The whole is exposed to the sun for 40 days, and then left on a shelf near the fire. If you have no rain water, then boil spring water.

  Columella

  Spring, Rain, Years

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• Already, China's world-leading solar industry provides water heating for 35 million buildings, and India's pioneering use of rainwater harvesting brings clean water to tens of thousands of homes.

  Christopher Flavin

  Home, Water, India

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• A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

  Pat Conroy

  Salt

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.337, Open Road Media

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• To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man even a fellow man striving to do the same to you creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Memories, Rain, Heart

  Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.176, Macmillan

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• I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind.

  W. G. Sebald

  Wall, Iron, Broken

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