Uses Of Water Quotes

• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

  Thomas Fuller

  Ocean, Sea, Oil And Water

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1732.

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• Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Home, Journey, Ice Water

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• Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country...But because water belongs to no one - except the people - special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Science, Government

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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 Kamal Tolba

  Thinking, Issues, Water

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• Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond.

  Frederick Lenz

  Water, Taoism, Needs

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• Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Wine, Water, Use

  Eugene H. Peterson (1997). “Leap over a wall: earthy spirituality for everyday Christians”

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• Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

  Nicholas Stern

  Vegetarian Diet, Water, Meat

  "Vegetarian diet is better for the planet, says Lord Stern" by David Batty, David Adam, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in Divine power-these are the true remedies.

  Ellen G. White

  Exercise, Air, Water

  Ellen G. White (1942). “The Ministry of Healing”, p.62, Digital Inspiration

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• By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher.

  David F. Houston

  Home, Eggs, Glasses

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• We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States will take the lead in the preservation and right use of forests, in securing the right use of waters, and in seeing that our land policy is not twisted from its original purpose, but is perpetuated by amendment, by change when such change is necessary in the life of that purpose, the purpose being to turn the public domain into farms each to be the property of the man who actually tills it and makes his home in it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Home, Men, Land

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• A victim of the use of water as a beverage.

  Sam Houston

  Water, Use, Beverages

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