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  • For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

    E. E. Cummings, “Maggie And Milly And Molly And May”
  • Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

    Wisdom   Water   Wealth  
  • Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.

    Mother   Rain   Rivers  
    Charles Mackay (1859). “Ballads and Lyrics”
  • Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food? Or will we take the lead now and leave to our children and grandchildren a world better off than the one we inherited from our parents?

  • If we continue on the path we're on, there simply won't be enough fresh water for everyone.

    Water   Path   Enough  
  • Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed beside the basketball. If you were to reduce the Earth to the size of a basketball, all the fresh surface water on the planet - all those rivers and lakes and ponds and streams - would fit inside that one tiny sesame seed. Add a second sesame seed; now you have all the usable underground water as well. Is fresh water a scarce resource?

    William Ashworth (1995). “The economy of nature: rethinking the connections between ecology and economics”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
  • Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.

    Rain   Rivers   Giving  
    Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837). “Ion: A Tragedy in Five Acts”, p.16
  • If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of humanity which could really dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.

  • American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

    America   Water   Society  
    Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton
  • Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.

    Water   Decision   Risk  
  • By 2030 the demand for resources will create a crisis with dire consequences. Demand for food and energy will jump 50% by 2030 and for fresh water by 30%, as the population tops 8.3 billion

  • Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust, in like manner the good deeds, that we think we do in this life, are overwhelmed by the multitude of evils.

    Life   Thinking   Dust  
  • In Africa, you have no clean water, but you have good food options. In Harlem, everyone can shower and get fresh water, but you often have bad food options.

    Water   Clean   Good Food  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?

  • When I think about what makes Canada great, fresh water is right at the top of the list. We have over two million lakes in this country and more than enough people who are willing to mess with them. My Canada includes weird scientists who are devoted to keeping our water clean. When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

  • Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.

    Dog   Baby   Lying  
    Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.122, Penguin
  • Access to a secure, safe and sufficient source of fresh water is a fundamental requirement for the survival, well-being and socio-economic development of all humanity. Yet, we continue to act as if fresh water were a perpetually abundant resource. It is not.

    "Is the World Running Out of Water?". Awake! magazine, June 22, 2001.
  • For too long we have tried to consume our way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted lands and oceans, climate change, growing scarcity of resources from food to land to fresh water, rampant inequality. We need to invent a new model; a model that offers growth and social inclusion... that is more respectful of the planet's finite resources. Nature has been kind to human beings, but we have not been kind to nature.

    Ocean   Land   Water  
    Ban Ki-moon's Press Conference on Rio+20, www.un.org. June 6, 2012.
  • It is a fact that our fresh water is becoming more scarce and that the new ways we are getting energy in America - fracking, mountaintop removal, cyclic steam extraction, deep-sea drilling - all pollute water, pollute the air, and pollute our soil and food.

    Air   Sea   America  
    "ORIGIN Interview: Mark Ruffalo on Climate Change, the Monopoly on Our Energy Systems, Fighting Fracking, the True Cost of Fossil Fuel Pollution, Showing Compassion, and Being Who You Say You Are". Interview with Leilani Münter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.
  • Organic is something we can all partake of and benefit from. When we demand organic, we are demanding poison-free food. We are demanding clean air. We are demanding pure, fresh water. We are demanding soil that is free to do its job and seeds that are free of toxins. We are demanding that our children be protected from harm. We all need to bite the bullet and do what needs to be done—buy organic whenever we can, insist on organic, fight for organic and work to make it the norm. We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.

    Maria Rodale (2010). “Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe”, p.192, Rodale
  • It is really important to solve the problem of rational utilization and distribution of wate supplies. I dare say, the shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

  • Silence is a beautiful fresh water tank to raise the trout of thought.

  • You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.

    Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.108, eKitap Projesi
  • Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.

    Pain   Spring   Flower  
    Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books
  • The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

    Water   Problem   Moments  
  • Since our region is endowed with a lot of natural resources, including reasonable supplies of fresh water, we need and we can work together to ensure this area against these vicissitudes.

    Water   Together   Needs  
  • There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.

    Oil   Water   Substitutes  
    Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich (1991). “The population explosion”, Touchstone Books
  • Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Good-bye, and may you find a better life, find comfort again and your breathless smile, and when your beloved face lights up once more at the Western sunrise, be sure what I felt for you was not in vain. Good-bye and have faith, my Tatiana.

    Night   Fire   Light  
  • If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

    Mother   Ocean   Nurse  
    Henry Williamson (2011). “The Gale of the World”, p.252, Faber & Faber
  • All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

    Wine   Order   Medicine  
    "Fictional character: Reg". "Life of Brian", www.imdb.com. 1979.
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