Water Resources Quotes - Page 3

• Dripping water hollows out a stone

  Ovid

  Rivers, Water, Environmental

  'Epistulae Ex Ponto' bk. 4, no. 10, l. 5.

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• Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Fighting, Water

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• Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

  Blaise Pascal

  Moving, Rivers, Water

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

  Langston Hughes

  Rain, Kissing, Water

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

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• Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Rain, Adventure

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.49

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• There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

  John F. Kennedy

  Water, Littles, Soil

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• A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Nature, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Order, Water, Effort

  Statement by Alfred de Zayas on World Water Day, March 22, 2013.

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• The [Donald] Trump administration is making it very clear that they intend to destroy our only drinking water resource on the Standing Rock Nation and the tens - the 10 million people who live south of the proposed pipeline. Drilling can begin any minute.

  Chase Iron Eyes

  Drinking, Rocks, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If everybody on the planet today had the same standard of living as the average European or American, we would need three new planets. But we don't even have one new planet. We have this one, and with the way we're polluting it, the shrinking water resources, the climate change, the experimentation with plants... the outlook is grim.

  Jane Goodall

  Average, Water, Today

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sea, Water, Levels

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• What is it that we need to do to explain to the public exactly is what is happening? We are destroying our precious water resources at this alarming rate, and again, why? When we have so many viable alternatives? "Oh,alternative power is too expensive, what about the jobs" - this is dinosaur thinking.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Jobs, Thinking, Exactly Is

  "Ian Somerhalder, ‘The Vampire Diaries’ Actor, Talks Love, Social Media And Social Change With Origin Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2013.

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• True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.

  George Aiken

  Wise, Should Have, Land

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• [Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a piracy, it is self defence. It is defending the Somalia children's food.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Children, Self, Water

  "Gaddafi defends Somali pirates" by Argaw Ahine, www.nation.co.ke. February 5, 2009.

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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 is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.

  Jim Wright

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Jim Wright (1966). “The Coming Water Famine”, New York : Coward-McCann

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• Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.

  Kofi Annan

  Issues, Water, Competition

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• Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a far more serious issue. Excessive pumping for irrigation to satisfy food needs today almost guarantees a decline in food production tomorrow.

  Lester R. Brown

  Oil, Issues, Water

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• Simple, easy actions can protect the health of our water resources and help save drinking water supplies. There is not one individual who cannot help to make a difference to the health of the environment

  Ian Kiernan

  Drinking, Simple, Differences

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