Quotes About Water

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

I lead a very physical life. I played a lot of sports and I spent a lot of time in the water surfing, swimming. I was a big swimmer.

Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.

Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

honey." Anne sighed, leaned back against his shoulder. Well out on the mesa, Grimes pulled up at a tinaja whose slow ooze of water filled a small rocky basin just enough for the grass that covered the thin soil for a few yards about the basin. He spread out the Navajo rug, and Anne snuggled beside him, in the lee of the boulder that sheltered them from the cool wind.

I hit my fist into the wall of the shower. I washed off the shame and anger in cold, cold water.

But here by the mill the castled clouds Mocked themselves in the dizzy water...

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

What should I be but a prophet and a liar, Whose mother was a leprechaun, whose father was a friar? Teethed on a crucifix and cradled under water, What should I be but the fiend's god-daugther?

Mine is a body that should die at sea! And have for a grave, instead of a grave Six feet deep and the length of me, All the water that is under the wave! And terrible fishes to seize my flesh, Such as a living man might fear, And eat me while I am firm and fresh, - Not wait till I've been dead for a year!

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

Water, water, water... There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount...unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.

If a man's imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dreams.

Lake Powell: storage pond, silt trap, evaporation tank and garbage dispose-all, a 180-mile-long incipient sewage lagoon.