Water Resources Quotes

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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.

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

    "The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, April, 1943.
  • Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

    Nature   Men   Lakes  
  • In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

    Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Drinking   Rocks   People  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • 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.

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

    Two   Water   Problem  
  • 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.

    Order   Water   Effort  
    Statement by Alfred de Zayas on World Water Day, March 22, 2013.
  • When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

    Rain   Rivers   Water  
    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.53, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

    Moving   Rivers   Water  
    Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.23, Open Road Media
  • Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

  • For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.

    Rain   Science   Thinking  
    Sandra Postel (2014). “The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity”, p.184, Routledge
  • I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

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

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

    Rivers   Water   Paddling  
    "New Jersey v. New York, et al., 283 U.S. 336, 342". Judicial opinion, 1931.
  • Water is the soul of the Earth.

    Water   Soul   Earth  
  • In time and with water, everything changes.

  • We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will be the critical issue.

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

    Nature   Hands   Rivers  
  • 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.

    Science   Oxygen   Two  
    D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6710, Delphi Classics
  • There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

    Water   Littles   Soil  
  • Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

    W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.105, Princeton University Press
  • The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

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

    Ocean   Air   Aquariums  
  • Water is the best of all things.

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

    Rain   Kissing   Water  
    Langston Hughes (2015). “Sail Away”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

    Rain   Rivers   Water  
    Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.15, Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • The solution to our water problems is more rain.

    Rain   Water   Problem  
  • 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.

    Rain   Men   Garden  
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