Quotes About Water

The community spoke loudly and clearly and said, 'You need to protect prime agricultural land, you need to protect our water catchments,' and that's exactly what we've done.

Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.

If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.

To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' There are no exceptions. Baptism is a necessary ordinance.

A man's life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.

Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.

Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and sometimes carves new ones with tiny currents that are themselves a response to the marks.

Down by the river, Down by the banks of the River Charles That's where you'll find me Along with lovers, muggers and thieves Well I love that dirty water, Oh Boston, you're my home. —The Inmates

He finds an open boulevard of water that leads inward to the Core. It has a sort of pedestrian catwalk running along one side of it, pieced together haphazardly, a seemingly endless procession of gangplanks, pontoons, logs, abandoned skiffs, aluminum canoes, oil drums. Anywhere else in the world, it would be an obstacle course; here in the Fifth World, it's a superhighway.

If the Cloud Ark survived, it would survive on a water-based economy.

Downtown is before them, as high and bright as the aurora borealis rising from the black water of the Bering Sea.

Information contains an almost mystical power of free flow and self replication, just as water seeks it's own level or sparks fly upward.

The staircase that leads over the tracks to Utter Maurby Terminal is enclosed with roof and walls, forming a gigantic organ pipe that resonates with an infrasonic throb as it is pummeled by wind and water. As he walks into the lower end of the staircase, the storm is suddenly peeled away from his face and he is able to stand there for a moment and give this phenom the full appreciation it deserves.

Ammonia worked better, but it was dangerous, and you couldn't easily get more of it in space. If the Cloud Ark survived, it would survive on a water-based economy. A hundred years from now everything in space would be cooled by circulating water systems. But for now they had to keep the ammonia-based equipment running as well. Further

So Enki was responsible, according to this myth, for irrigating the fields with his 'water of the heart.'

He finds a ramp that leads down to the beach and lets gravity draw him towards sea level, gazing to the south and west. The water is pacific and colorless beneath a hazy sky, the horizon line is barely discernable.

Crazytown was repelled by facts and knowledge, as oil fled from water, but was fascinated by the absence of hard facts, since it provided vacant space in which to construct elaborate edifices of speculation

She got lost then in the striations in the iris of Edda's left eye. These were immensely complex, and of all colors, having about them the same balance of order and wildness as exposed tree roots, tendrils of smoke in the wind, tongues of wild flame, the swirling of water where rivers came together.

hydrological warfare.

I assure you, there needs to be no place on Earth where people cannot have access to clean, pure water—and whatever else is needed to "make life work"—if the people of Earth simply cared enough about each other.