Quotes on Water

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people: harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.

Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.

Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.

Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.

Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.

I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As you yourself are water, no matter where you are, your prayers will be carried to the rest of the world.

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

In time and with water, everything changes.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.