Water Resources Quotes

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  Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Motivational, Strength

  W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.105, Princeton University Press

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• Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

  John F. Kennedy

  Two, Water, Problem

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• Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.

  Luna Leopold

  Nature, Children, Rivers

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  Water is the driving force of all nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Reality, Water

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• We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Time, Water, Environmental

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• When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.53, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Water is the soul of the Earth.

  W. H. Auden

  Water, Soul, Earth

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• If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

  Loren Eiseley

  Garden, Rivers, Lakes

  The Immense Journey "The Flow of the River" (1957)

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• The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

  Luna Leopold

  Land, Water, Environmental

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• Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Moving, Writing, Fighting

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• Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Mother, Ice Water, Water Of Life

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• A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

  Laura Gilpin

  Moving, Rain, Memorable

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• We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Rain, Cycle Of Life, Water Of Life

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• Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.

  William Ashworth

  Children, Rain, Rivers

  William Ashworth (1982). “Nor any drop to drink”

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• In time and with water, everything changes.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Water, Things Change

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• We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Thinking, Land

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• A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Rivers, Water, Paddling

  "New Jersey v. New York, et al., 283 U.S. 336, 342". Judicial opinion, 1931.

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• Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

  Paul Harvey

  Rain, Men, Garden

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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

  Art, Rain, Color

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• What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Beauty, Beautiful, Beach

  "The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, April, 1943.

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• Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

  Laozi

  Strong, Power, Water

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• Water is the best of all things.

  Pindar

  Science, Rivers, Water

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• When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memorable, Hands, Water

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• Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

  Langston Hughes

  Rain, Best Kiss, Liquid

  Langston Hughes (2015). “Sail Away”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Air, Aquariums

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