Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
– Margaret Atwood
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
– W. H. Auden
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
– Laozi
A man of wisdom delights in water.
– Confucius
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
– Loren Eiseley
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
And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
– Lord Byron
Water is the soul of the Earth.
– W. H. Auden
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans …
– Khalil Gibran
Water is also one of the four elements,
the most beautiful of God’s creations.
It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a
tendency to descend,
and flows with great readiness.Â
– John of Damascus, Syrian monk
Water is the driving force of all nature.
– Leonardo da Vinci
In time and with water, everything changes.
– Leonardo da Vinci
All water has a perfect memory and is forever
trying to get back to where it was.
– Toni Morrison
Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium.
There is no life without water.
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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
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
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
– Thomas Fuller
To understand water is to understand the cosmos,
the marvels of nature, and life itself.
– Masaru Emoto
Water is being depleted many, many times faster
than nature can replenish it.
– Maude Barlow
Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone,
must become available to all people now.
– Jean-Michel Cousteau
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