Explore Quotes on Water

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.

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.

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

I have little need to remind you that water has become one of our major national concerns.

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would give our planet a special character.

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.

And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature, and life itself.

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

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

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.

Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents.

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

To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the same - follow a river. The river is the original forest highway. It is nature's own Wilderness Road.

I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

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

Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.