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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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• 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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• 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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• The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

  Isak Dinesen

  Beach, Encouragement, Ocean

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• When you hear the splash Of the water drops that fall Into the stone bowl You will feel that all the dust Of your mind is washed away.

  Sen no Rikyu

  Fall, Rain, Dust

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• Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.

  Sandra Postel

  Rain, Marine, Blue

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• Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

  Laozi

  Strong, Inspiration, Practice

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• To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

  Barry Lopez

  Nature, Hands, Rivers

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• The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?

  Lily Tomlin

  Ice, Cubes, Formulas

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• Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Oxygen, Two

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6710, Delphi Classics

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• Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

  Claude Debussy

  Curves, Expression, Swag

  "The Twentieth Century". Book by Caroline Farrar Ware, 1972.

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• Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

  Margaret Atwood

  Patience, Children, Remember You

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.43, Canongate Books

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• Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.

  Peter Kreeft

  Grace, Littles, Opening

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• When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost every mythology sees the origins of life coming out of water. And, curiously, that's true. It's amusing that the origin of life out of water is in myths and then again, finally, in science, we find the same thing. It's exactly so.

  Joseph Campbell

  Rain, Origin Of Life, Icons

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.10, New World Library

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• The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.

  Shozo Tanaka

  Memorable, Heart, Rivers

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

  Luna Leopold

  Land, Environmental, Principles

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• Our bodies are molded rivers.

  Novalis

  Rain, Rivers, Body

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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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• What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

  Plutarch

  Principles, Elements, World

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Rivers, Paddling, Treasure

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

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• Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Spiritual, Spring, Soul

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• Water is the best of all things.

  Pindar

  Science, Rivers, Environmental

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• The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

  Chief Seattle

  Father, Voice

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Mother, Water Of Life, Dancing

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