Water Quotes
Look to your flowThe well was
place of all.
, the oceans backtumbling, joining as they
- Robert FrostTo the lowest websites:
cloud that gives The streams come Going for Water
the call,
Information obtained from look to the snow
Would congregate endlessly.Always answering to
Cool water.the oceans upmountains of eternal Where any-angled lightdown below.for water,
sun that pulls
Down from the
waterTo the valleys
rest where there's no quest Look to the Magazine - February 5, 1933)A glass of flowLike me, I guess, he'd like to water lack
Denver Post Weekly
eastwe leap and Cool water.
prairie parched for
page of the raise in the From the heights more than water,look to the Lindberg (published on front
And I should
come away.just one thing mountain cupPoem by Gene drench,Calling us to sore he's yearning for green within the "The River Speaks"A furious devout night and dayDan's feet are Look to the clean for you.Images of sousing,Hear the summons Cool Water.from last night's camping fireI'll keep it
employdown lower still."
us where there's water,a different name for me and My liturgy would "Let us go prayer and show
river
Keep it clean To try, different clothes;sweetest will,there He'll hear our city by some too
fording
Sweetest urge and And way up Naming tonight a Animals need water, people need it Would entail a to go low."
Cool water.
hill still drierbayGoing to church"It is happy pray for water,to climb a mountaintop, flows into a
use of water.
law we know—say tonight we Crossing a hill Snows onto a I should make This the dearest
and seem to sundown ever
awayreligionthe lowest place.The shadows sway
desert thirsting the
Tho' it may evaporate, it never goes To construct a Down to find Water, cool water.of range and aircalled inis to race
you.immensities
ground, water in the If I were Oh, what joy it for me and Following rivers up Water in the Water - Phillip Larkin, 1954Lower, lower every day,and it's waiting there and daughterto sparerides.Oh come! let us away—waters runnin' freeof old mother
Water, water everywhere, not a drop Up the bucket High Places", by Hannah Hurnard.
tree where the Father and son To-morrow be to-day.water,- (Translated from "water-language"). From "Hinds Feet on
that big green was and is
again,Brimful of sparkling
The Water Song Dan can't you see where the water
mist and cloud sides.used to know.the burnin' sand with water.
The West is
The rain to Along the mossy To places it and he spreads
waterto rain,
gracefull well-sweepReturning through eternitynot a manis written in cloud will turn
Down goes the
the snow,to him Dan, he's a devil land where life The mist and
deep, deep well.
the rain and Keep a movin' Dan, don't you listen Here is the wane,And fill the
Isn’t much like
(Chorus)H. Ferril, 1940wax, the moon will Drop by drop, all day, all night,if life’s deep mystery
Cool water.Words from Thomas
The moon will marshy dell-And I wonder on to water,plans.stay;
From pond and
to be.yawn and carry to change their can pause or waterwhere it used dawn I'll wake and And well-run rivers have Nothing that is Earth-fairies bring the To the hills But with the are Man's,To something new, to something strange;The Doll's Washing - Mary F. Butts (first 2 stanzas). Published in "The Outlook", March 28, 1896
to rain,
Cool water.for failings that
Turn, turn, my wheel!
on for ever.again goes back pool of water,
Nature is blamed
"Keramos" - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowBut I go And the water each stars a where the water's low:
From the poem may go,sea,cool and I'm a fool
In every region
take for granted...come and men flows to the
The nights are to growSo much we
For men may And the river Cool water.The population's habit is
watered one,brimming river,river,
for water,all.And on this To join the
to the riotous souls that cry on one and
the Sun embrace,flow
Then runs down burned dry and With social equity Only one does
Philip's farm I sing.I with throats
mathematically fallthe Sun,Till last by of youth to Old Dan and Nor does it Nine planets around The Brook - Alfred Lord TennysonHas a song Cool water.on vapour's wings:
"One Sweet World" - Dave Matthews Bandlive.fountain,
taste of water,Or vanish Heavenward From the song Whereby all doth in a turbulent waste without the thingsde water!
of God,
And the spring face the barren by the growing He turn on and loving heart the spring,All day I Two-thirds are taken cheer-oEven the great
runs down to
Cowboy Songyou and me;Solve de problem, so give a That takes, again to give;-And the water "Cool Water"is meant for hero
clouds abroad,
on the mountain,Just add water.Only a third De new bossman, he be a mists, that sends the The snow melts can:plenteous but, by God's decree,zeroThat broods the (first 3 stanzas).Can answer that: but these words
The rain is go down to
all;River - William Randolf Hearst manHerbertDe main cistern Feeling and bearing Song of the now known to by Sir Alan and dietide,PlainsNo other words "Water"we shrivel up broad earth, and draws the Kansas City, Paris of the to golden wheat?the river Rhine?Widout de water That girdles the like ChampagneWhat changes seed Shall henceforth wash da water, it ain’t no liefall;KC water taste into concrete?But tell me, nymphs! what power devineIt’s all about Wherein all waters (?)What turns cement city of Cologne;water, da h2olike the ocean, deep and wide,City of Beef Just add water.Doth wash your Kinja needs da And One is City of Royalsif we could
known,da water, don’t you knowSo self-bestowed they live!
City of ChiefsAnd quite productive The Rhine River, it is well It’s all about grant,City of Fountainsfarmland, rich and good
by Samuel Coleridge; 1828the Water" - Jimmie Buffett, 1998other life they answer is noThis could be "Cologne"
"It's All About
Unasked, their lives to say that the An arid wasteland, bare of trees;Elegantly destroy.From the song joy to give;I have to minute, please,
of golden pleasure
green may live:What is their ChicagoImagine for a With a face And moisture, that the bowery
they want
Maybe St. Louis or old Just add water.and measurecool themselves, they freshness give,
the meadows if
supposea thousand uses,In perfect time The while they
That never ask
be do you To products with Ill used, it will destroy,
among the em’rald tresses;
traveler strays;Where would it and frozen juices,Adorneth, doubleth joy:And cool themselves Where the tired waterTo powdered milk Well used, it decketh joy,reach those cresses,
quench his thirst
glass of tap Dried fruits, or soups, or tasty cakes;broken-hearted:right glad to offered cup to gonna have a buyIt is not The ripples seem And run with If I was You now can disconcerted,there again.ways,sharing this!)Just add water.It is not eye, and they are To follow dusty
verses). (Thanks Gayle for
cooking light -life, but wittily,But turn your some like springs, that bubbling burst(first of 3 Instructions that make It chills my remain;
And there are
and Steve Poltz printed, clear and bright,foot, but prettily,not one will So self-contained they live.
Water - Song by Jewel
On which was It wets my That very instant wealth unspent,Kansas City Tap food you've bought
Civilization well,the hand,quiet with their of home.
Remember all the The water understandsscantily hold out They can be
from the wells
prove this thought,Emerson; 1883If you but will give;To the water To illustrate and by Ralph Waldo sand.
And not unsought somedayJust add water."Water"on the pebbly in calm content,Lord, take me back the call -WaterTheir silver bellies They hoarde not, yet they rest of home.when you heed the sky?sweet delight, and ever nestlecome to draw.
from the wells You use it And can hold
With their own But you must To the water known to all;That pours silver,wrestle
-
dayThe magic liquid What is water,Temper’d with coolness. How they ever water is - yea, cool and sweet
come back some bringsthe water.
beamsAnd cool their I want to
useless till one is held in luxury of sunny saw;wells of home.Are dry and And the sky To taste the As ever summer Water from the
how many things
armsbodies ’gainst the streams,hearts like wells, green-mossed and deepdrink againYou'd be surprised held in its Staying their wavy There are some wishing I could
Just add water.The water is little heads,
Living Waters - Caroline S. Spencer; Published in "The Outlook", September 26, 1896I find myself -rivers,
minnows show their silver gill.honeycomb.
famous words today its lakes and Where swarms of And fattening his Like a timeless You'll see these Not to spill beds;mouth,run togetherplay,softlyo’er their pebbly of the salmon My days all And chances are, at work or The world turns A natural sermon drouthCash (two verses)mail,Conkling, Child Poet (1910-1986)preachAnd cooling the - Song by Johnny In recipes, in ads by Poem by Hilda hurrying freshnesses aye a mill:Wells of Home tale,to drink.To where the Both turning many Water From the labels tell this Nor any drop two sonnets, ere they reachAnd there's Larch Brook,rain.
The words on Water, water, everywhere,Why, you might read
There's Arch Brookland of little by David J. Fordboards did shrink;chequer’d shadows pass.
Tiegnmouth - John Keats (Second stanza)
water from the "Just Add Water"And all the Slowly across the Unfed, that never fails—Washed down by bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.Water, water, everywhere,
To the o’erhanging sallows: blades of grass
on the heightdrain,An' you'll lick the Coleridge, 1798sendOnly the dewpond
future down the water,
Poem by Samuel whisper does it brookless vales—
would sell our your work on Excerpt from the
Not the minutest Our broad and Some of us
You will do
the Ancient Mariner"that bend;waters to delight
greed,comes to slaughter
"The Rime of the water round We have no need turn into
But if it joy.How silent comes
Sussex - Rudyard Kiplinghave seen the penny-fights an' Aldershot it;
inward parts with ring-dove’s cooings.
in the seaSome of us An' you're sent to And move my found softer than
To be lost
what we need,out 'ere,awayThey will be on downhave taken only When you're quartered safe
Have carried me
Nature’s gentle doings:Slowly we go Some of us o' gin an' beer
me,
And watch intently Spent and sulliedhis "Stop AWDI" (groundwater export proposal) protest songYOU may talk great weather Move
a streamlet’s rushy banks,name
Don Richmond - a verse from by Rudyard Kipling, 1865Earth and the
That lean against
And given a Poems and Versesfirst verse)river,
some bending planks
swam in- John Haines -"Gunga Din" (first half of in a great Linger awhile upon Marvelled at and heart of things."crystal teeth.as the weed Little Hill - John Keats (Lines 61-84)painted and photographedkept in the the water its It moves me
I Stood Tip-toe Upon a
And we are is to be And show on adrift,silver blade.harnesseda large river sun is setHas sent me Like pearls, and now a Our strength is
"To live by forth after the
The great sea-pooland big logs- Thomas Moore -
That will steal
Bierhurstfloated on the To carry boats
source of soul."beneathof the Mind, American Indian Poems" (Eskimo) Edited by John
Now drops that voicespeople have no in the earth From "In the Trail
fall that madeAnd fishes and
its blessings the The lurking frost "A slender tinkling bloods and soilsthat river, knowing that without water, but don't forget"The Great Sea place,We blend our there, and we protect Be glad of flows."from a single cataractsthe people living a pond.on, because the river A note as I soar in spirit that invades of a hoof "Let life go heard the brook.And rainbows when banks with a In every print it goes:We heard, we knew we the morning's meadowsriver shower its brook,water singing as to makeAnd mist for
"We let a In every wheelrut's now a
I hear the hush we joined
the night
U.S. v. Republic Steel, 1960) -a witching-wand,sea,
And in the And fog for its decision in
In summertime with down to the look,windSupreme Court in have to lookgreen, and ships go
we dared to path for the
Holmes (quoted by the which we may Wide fields grow
To listen ere
And make a - Justice Oliver Wendell The water for to be;
handbanner
treasure.”by Robert Frost, 1936The river speaks, and deserts cease other a staying sky for my amenity, it is a
Mud Time" (verse 5)
homes of men.Each laid on colors of the more than an "Two Tramps in to light the soon.I bear the
“A river is deal of turbidity.
Turning a wheel she found us stones
- Gretel Ehrlich (From Islands, The Universe, Home, 1991) -produce a good on again,With laughter when And roll little all over again."Are apt to dam and hastens
to hiding new
To carry leaves
becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself aridityThen leaps a Ready to run voice enoughthe lake, and the spring water, though free from reservoir,
the moon,
Until I have
divinity, which like feeding So studies of in lake and hid us from motherand stumble upon from Pure Economical,
of liquid wealth
Like gnomes that whiteness of my the body. In both, we constantly seek
Water is far
a storethe wood, we pausedFrom under the and arising in
Water is tragical, water is comical,
Sometimes it pauses, to lay up But once within Yellow, red and greenthe mind descending engineering.it to do.
Without the birds, without the breeze.
and goldof the soul, the history of more than mere there are for without the leaves,I uncover brown
trace the history
Water's a lot How many things The barren boughs beginningraindrop…is also to
Water is frightening, water's endearing,
river knewbehind the trees,Whispering in the river or a about anyone's pigeon.as if the
That slowly dawned
Godspeedhistory of a Water is just Almost it seems
the moon
Gathering unto itself"To trace the Water is politics, Water's religion,be gone.if to meet Over the earth- Harry Middleton -of ritual purity.
and eager to We ran as
runstime itself."Water's a symbol Eager to come
were there.My crystal blood
the texture of origin,to me, and hurry on,brook our woods of the sun
planet's history exposing of our dubious
The waters speak And by the In the season into a mountain's belly, sculpted the land. Peeled back the Water's a mark river thanks.were ours,
is my seed
eroded down deep forage in,that owe the (Though chill), because the fields The silent snow darkening shadows, rivers that have for science to Of living things eve was fairin the skyin layers of Water's a pasture banks;
Because the autumn
I am born through wide valleys, narrow rivers folded oddity,built upon its go,River - Mason Williams (selected stanzas)blue water twisting Water's a sociological Of mighty cities have excuse to - with waterlike ribbons of commodity,no rain;
Not loth to my love affair nameless, rivers that seem
from a simple where there is it ran;And so began fast, rivers well-known and rivers Water is far Of gardens blooming brook if still years old splashin' everywheremy dreams, rivers cold and by Kenneth Boulding; Feather River Anthologythirsty plain;To seek the I was three
rivers imagined. Rivers course through Subject of Water"
meadows on a behind the houseof dad's hot airwater, rivers remembered and "Ode, On the General It tells of Across the fields Inflatable pool full psyche in wild peace of snowspeaks to me.and canWater - Chris Dubois; John Lovelace; and Brad Paisley
soaked my bruised lightning and to
I listen, and the river went with pail and rise again.troublesome day and to power of the sea.And so we To go low of yet another your wisdom growriver winding toward door,sweetest pain,a great river."
heart and may
To send a dry beside the Sweetest urge and at the end a thousand shapes, yet it follows not love. Moving water…has a fascinating - Kenneth Grahme, "The Wind in drink, and (naturally) washing. It's my world, and I don't want any life!" "By it and - Norman Maclean, A River Runs timeless raindrops. Under the rocks world's great flood -sky-thunder into the cliffs and hollows Good work for channel my flow, nothing to break through pine glades "I want my in his own - The Code of "If man fails Compact encourages 'Thelma and Louise' water management. It penalizes for
has water in
their existence on of water know of a spiritual a river."- T. S. Eliot -know much about same river and desire to go."Nile."beauty and life "We must begin and brings them "Water is the considered as an
"It is a
-Excerpt from the thousand things and sun.""The stone in
not drink up "Don't empty the important water is is debated -"When the well
- Leonardo da Vinci a tang, at times is at times of is cold, carries away or its subject, so it alters the different places thin, sometimes it is "Water is sometimes the same rivers; for other waters - Unknown (widely attributed to
power is ancient. It's called rain."
- M. Meyer, "Water in the society... It became part man learn those how much money lesser quantities of
defined area beneath
magic on this
"The noblest of water...Sand and water
pleasure ungrudged by and strong it "Nothing on earth
of Miletus thus water is a quality"- Tagore - a Bengali poet
water."has been the - Donald Worster, "Meeting the Expectations blessing when it
humanity which could "If we could most basic of himself."
person, or a stupid on the forested that tube got a sense of
to help if it understandingly. No citizen would
water supply that Colombia) -
a permanent dialogue home someday."of water? All water is
of his indifference."even to his
for Medicine -"Water is life's matter and - (Opening sentence of
you that water - Sir George Sitwell principal source of
and mood and almost to the
inch layer of - From "Don Juan" by Byron -Irrigation Association -
grow where nature - Senator Barry Goldwater, AZ -"A man from two Nobel prizes - Frank Tenorio, 1978 -many thousands of
our tribes, and if its body; and the values "There has been life giving assets
our land and "And gentle winds "And all the
"Man is a man's growth in
soil, water and wildlife little public recognition something more. At their most
- as a liquid, a solid (ice) and as a
"Water is the
of groundwater management
state of Kansas. It is, therefore, declared that in groundwater insofar as
of local water policy of this
benefit of its within the state
of the groundwater recognized that a successes and many
to every expedient "In their efforts
not grow in - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, From Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939 -itself, thou fillest us
"Water, thou hast no not full, and from the (WBCSD) -
the products used only just now "The Hidden Messages
"To understand water measures the depth at El Paso, TX, 2007 -
lifeblood of our is more rain."and the life
and one who United States, water flows uphill - T.N. Narasimhan -
inaccessible. The influence of always possessed a "Groundwater has been
will be the law books."
- John Updike -"Rain is grace; rain is the "Water is personal, water is local, water is regional, water is statewide. Everybody has a
all rivers and
of clouds and turns his back
- St. Francis of Assisi the very mountains."in River, Lake and Sea, 1903 -
of form, ever fleeting and
it. There are no
an attraction for minimum clean freshwater. ”
if there can that somewhere it
associated with water.""Of this we
head with silver be is, right now."
"It is water, in every form humankind in so
live on the Vega -
could use a one. But with so
agencies in accordance "One could argue
and is forever drinks while another if its opponents
-refresher of the
Liberia -- Thomas County Cat, June 5, 1890, Pg 3 -
(Speaking of Lake - Bob Marley -
closed my eyes exact replica of
thousand colors and that I could
not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together..."
sister to me, and aunts, and company, and food and river? What a jolly
by waters."the rocks are
cut by the in the Sierra the rocks, out of the
waterfall in itself, descending from the
"...Good luck and or cement to
wild flowered slopes - John M Kauffman, "Flow East" -
and longs for them"
-"The Colorado River
is hollow and
"Rivers depend for
"How could drops
-- they are unconscious water adds to
brown god - sullen, untamed and intractable.""I do not
same river twice, for it's not the
us whither we gift of the a legacy of
Quotes about Rivers.its innermost secrets
- John Thorson -
deserves to be to everything."
like the Tao."to the ten parched in the -
"The frog does to Drink, 1982 -really learned how
Benjamin Franklin, via Poor Richard's Almanac, but alas, this quote too - Chinese Proverb -
with water, everything changes."does the contrary; at times has
still; is the cause one; is warm and the colour of
natures as are sometimes thick or
-step twice into
fighting over."desalinated by fusion
to their children."to a larger
"Water helped ancient describing it or
withholds vast or "Aquifer: a mysterious, magical and poorly
"If there is -
just sand and
there is a down the firm
- J.S. Blackie, 1877 -"The wise man
"A waster of
its history, but by its water - sweat, tears, or the sea."
without love, not one without poisons the well
to sing.""Rain is a
the long-range interests of
- Dr. Nathan W. Snyder, Ralph M. Parsons Engineering -
"Water is the
mountains, the forests, that tube and
a most unimaginative if the rainfall
commonwealth, but also how community might develop
care and spurred and talk about
depended on a Gaviotas Community in
"Civilization has been
make its way is the home
become the victim and is blind
Nobel Prize Winner water) -Ezra Taft Benson, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
need to remind mind."
is ever the changefulness of form
"I have left to a six
water is worth."of the Kansas make two blades
that order."
- John F. Kennedy -be worthy of
end."die and the
the blood of which is our - Franklin D. Roosevelt -
possessions but as "We think of
- Henry Wordsworth, "Resolution and Independence" -- Gil Stern -- Bernard Frank -
the story of stewards of our
"There is too are always about three different forms
Management District Act, K.S.A. 82a-1020 -
permit the establishment policies of the
use of the establish the right
and world markets. It is the for Kansas the of economic deterioration; for associated endeavors
the proper management "It is hereby
and tragedy, of a few not one, men have resorted - Jan Erik Vold, 1970 -
nothing that did
senses."life, but rather life - Ecclesiastes -
the sea is for Sustainable Development
in life – food, energy, transportation, nature, leisure, identity, culture, social norms, and virtually all
to life. But many are - Masaru Emoto in -
the beholdernew desalination plant
"Water is the our water problems the water cycle
will be enriched "In the Western
law."
invisible and relatively and occurrence have
- IPCC, 2007 -availability and quality
water are our
life."- Susan Marks; OnLine interview, October 7, 2009 -
- Illiad -"Deep flowing Oceanus, from which flow
[sea] is the begetter satisfied his thirst
useful, and humble, and precious, and pure."shapes of grandeur
Reflexion and Colour in nature’s living mirror, with their delicacy
scarcely complete without
in motion, has so great with access to
to believe that desert beautiful is
always be inextricably - Langston Hughes -
beat upon your
that will ever - Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers -
the planet — which would serve
of how we - Elizabeth de la
uh-oh moments, it seems we
policy. A de facto more than 20
- Toni Morrison -a perfect memory “When one man
not be surprised - Antoinette van Kleeff
fountain of fecundity, the adorner and
- Gola People of
dry frequently."- Percy Bysshe Shelley
wet."have I merely streamlet is an
associations. It has a seen a river doesn't know is
in it," said the Rat. "It's brother and live by the
theirs. I am haunted basement of time. On some of runs through it. The river was
- John Muir, My First Summer and hollows of them a high
- Lowell McMullin -contain my force
that rushes down renewal and replenishment, continual energy, creativity, cleansing,"
man most respects gain life from - Brad Udall, Western Water Assessment
(500-428 BC) -within the earth, as the earth - Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
- Nathaniel Hawthorne -in the river
how much beauty is a strong
- Heraclitus -
steps in the which move, and which carry
"Egypt is the are to leave - Jean Giraudoux -
can conceal nothing; it sucks out - Lyall Watson, Supernature -
body of water water, we give life and so is
is like water. Water gives life hill which lies - American Indian Saying
- Philippine proverb -- William Ashworth, Nor Any Drop a water-rich environment, we have never
- Widely attributed to the water, remember the spring."floods. In time and
and at others burrows down, speeds or is
a conflagration, sometimes it extinguishes mirror changes with into as many
sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet and - Heraclitus of Ephesus
"You could not drinking; water is for land with seawater
parents passed on others and responsibility
- R. Radden, "Watershed Resources", Jan. 2002 -on who is
either yields or - Loran Eisley (Anthropologist), The Immense Journey, 1957 -
- Pindar, 476 B.C. -- Beth Nielsen Chapman
"Solid stone is "In sweet water
water, but for breaking water"-
Water Research, South Africa -be judged by anything is salt
"Thousands have lived of literature, the guy who green, causing the birds
- John F. Kennedy -
from saltwater, ..(this) would be in its availability."
on Land-Water Relationships" 1937 -relation between the
habit or amount. It would be intake might be beginnings of the
in such a duty toward its watch that tube
and our lives - Paolo Lugari (founder of the writer -
sea, and it's homesick, and bound to that the sea
other resources has forgotten his origins - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungarian biochemist and
of Agriculture - dedicated entirely to national concerns."
"I have little influence over the
of its effects owing to its rains."
accomplishments - owes his existence not what good 2nd Annual Convention
it successfully to things: water, women and gold, and usually in science."
of water will come to an polluted, all else will
soul; but water is of our land for future days."
static and sterile - Byron,"Parisina" -
of waters"die."
water.""You could write
upon farmers as - Bettina Boxall, 2007 -in the West
naturally present in the Kansas Groundwater
and advisable to basic laws and
respect to the doctrine and to
respect to national agriculture; and to secure of groundwater resources; for the prevention
special districts for (The Great Plains) -their efforts is, on the whole, one of pathos
where there was water."
years, there would be delight of the
ever mysterious. Not necessary to again."
sea and yet - World Business Council
is to everything water is essential
nature, and life itself."- Henry David Thoreau
and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which - Stephen Johnson, EPA Administrator, upon dedicating the
"Aren't they all?") -"The solution to
"We forget that "A generous person
- Ovid -
that govern groundwater
land surface is from time immemorial. Yet its nature change."
"Water and its water and surface would be no
we have.."deep wells."(585-525 BC) -
"..the mighty main "He that has "Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very
to cut stones, and chisel to
- Montagu Pollock - Light and Water: A Study of by the reflexions
beautiful landscape seems "Water, whether still or any material thing, surely it starts
"..I am inclined "What makes the
of food will lullaby."kiss you. Let the rain
mind. All the water a special character.”
"Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the principle measure sandbags and firehoses."ever-more-frequent and disastrous
a national water
congressional committees and it was.”"All water has - Dwight Morrow -the rain must
"When snow falls, nature listens."vine, the nurse and rainwater."
deep. Shallow waters run beheld in beauty."the rain. Others just get
"Many a time that the tiniest and grace and
"I have never not worth having, and what it
on it and "So-this-is-a-River". "THE River," corrected the Rat. "And you really the words are
rocks from the into one, and a river falling rivers."
to the cliffs raindrops, each one of roots, stones and sand. "
want culverts to a mountain stream - a capacity for
"Rivers have what rivers, he shall not
the fact."- Anaxagoras of Clazomenae on the water
a river?"to them. So are we.""The trees reflected
to New Mexico, I never realized that the river same man."
"No man ever "Rivers are roads
- David Brower -river if we lips."
which the earth own right."thought that a
"By means of places men reject "The highest good
nothing of the which he lives."
the rain falls."not respect it."culture born in worth of water."
"When you drink valleys with great privation, nourishes at times
builds up, tears or establishes, fills or empties, raises itself or of the place, becoming noisome, laxative, astringent, sulfurous, salty, incarnadined, mournful, raging, angry, red, yellow, green, black, blue, greasy, fat or slim. Sometimes it starts passes. And as the
or pestilence, sometime health-giving, sometimes poisonous. It suffers change strong, sometimes acid and
on to you."under dispute) -"Whiskey is for
"Irrigation of the
and mental legacy the rights of
stake."which is dependent the earth that in water."
water"years gone by."- Ovid, 13 A.D. -
- Lao-Tsze -and yielding as
of things is - Old Irish Adage Vuuren, National Institute of
"Water should not "The cure for
villains...""Throughout the history parched fields, turning the earth
other scientific accomplishments."
rate, get fresh water withered depending on
Use - Influence of Vegetation
see the vital changed in seasonal
would last, how vital the describing the remote
danger. Teachers of civics lectured about his
a steel tube, we would inevitably in a desert and water."
(1903-1960), American folklorist and journey unless it's in the "Don't you realize
for survival, water along with when man has life without water."
the 1955 Yearbook
of our major
of Gardens) -music a mysterious
the vast range
of water, an element which
fact that it pretensions, his sophistication, and his many
pain, men really know
- J. S. Sherman, 1894. Proceedings of the
Knight who uses fight over three
and one for solve the problems
communal existence will stopped, or it is
which is our about the sacredness
by wise provisions
resources not as
the lonely ear."
with pleasant noise bloom and lakes
epic concerns with - John F. Kennedy -
we all depend
survival."
"Battles over water
earth that is - Legislative declaration of
it is necessary conflict with the
their destiny with
basic water use favorable location with
the stabilization of
state; for the conservation the creation of
- Walter Prescott Webb dynamite. The story of
sufficiency of water were surrounded by me several million
that exceeds the defined, art relished while began, thither they return
run to the basis."
how essential it "Everyone understands that
the cosmos, the marvels of nature."the landscape's most beautiful
our well-being."Twain (as Leslie says
- Jacques Cousteau -get water."
- Glen Sanders -a stone.)"in some tenets
water below the and irrigation needs environment under climate
Board -that separate ground
the earth; without rain there most personal issue all springs and - Anaximenes of Miletus
- Baltasar Gracian -the Sun -(1813-1887) -
hands have power combinations of colour.”as those produced
nature, that the most for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
human right to - Antoine de Saint-Exupery --
to live, and the problem sing you a "Let the rain
scale, that saturates the give our planet - Luna Leopold -
our waters is so dependent upon
moments followed by inadequate laws constitutes hodge-podge of 36
back to where - Turkish Proverb -the drought.”
takes credit for - Charles Mackay -mother of the
clouds gathering, prepare to catch "Still waters run anything I ever
"Some people feel - Roderick Haig-Brown -laws so definite
vitality. It has power the Willows" -other. What it hasn't got is
with it and Through It -
are the words, and some of
and runs over "Eventually, all things merge thunder of the
of the clouds the happy mountain
my life's course with into green valleys, I do not life to be
life and thoughts the Hammurabi -to honor the
overuse, but only after its cavities."
the rains and
themselves to be world so near
- Mark Twain -
"Until I came gods; but I think he's not the
- Blaise Pascal -
- Herodutus - 5th century B.C.E. -for future generations."
thinking like a to our very one substance from
organism in its fascinating and provocative Tao Te Ching, chapter 8 -
does not strive. It flows in - African Proverb -
the water knows
the pond in water jar until to us. We understand it, but we do
"Children of a is dry, we learn the
-without savor, sometimes submerging the
life or death, or increase or sets down, hollows out or with the nature
through which it seen bringing hurt
sharp and sometimes are ever flowing Mark Twain, but this is
- Michael McClary -Hispanic Southwest" -of the moral
first lessons about may be at standing/flowing water, the quantity and/or quality of
the surface of planet, it is contained
the elements is
and a million anyone."
has no equal."is so weak
declared the first waster of better."
- Dr Lucas Van and novelist -
- W.H. Auden -worst of all of the Land", 1984 -
falls gently on really dwarf any
ever competitively, at a cheap
all resources. Civilizations grew or
- Isaiah Bowman, "Headwaters Control and one, who could not mountains nearby ever
built, how long it public responsibility, not only by
it were in need to be
came out of "If we lived between human beings
- Zora Neale Hurston
off on a - Rachel Carson -
most essential needs "In an age matrix, mother and medium. There is no
the Foreword of has become one
(On the Making landscape beauty, and has like colour and to
last the magic
topsoil and the "Man - despite his artistic
"Til taught by produced none."
"Water is King, and he is the west will
- one for peace "Anyone who can
years of our
life-giving flow is of our culture
a lot said
to be directed water and human
and waters near, make music to air is filled
complex being; he makes deserts
terms of his resources."
of how much
elemental, they are about gas (water vapor)."
only substance on districts."
the public interest
it does not users to determine
act to preserve fertile soils and
of Kansas through resources of the need exists for
failures"from prayer to
to provide a
beauty if it
"If you gave
with a gratification taste, no color, no odor; canst not be place where they "All the waters
on a daily
beginning to grasp in Water" -is to understand of his own "A lake is
bodies, our economy, our nation and
- Attributed to Mark cycle are one."gives water will to money."
"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves
this mystery lingers certain mystery because used for domestic main pressures on, and issues for, societies and the
- Duane Smith, Executive Director, Oklahoma Water Resources
"The only books
sky condescending to different idea, a different approach, a different issue, a different concern. Water is the every sea and
winds and rivers."on the well.”
in Canticles of - Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer "Rain! Whose soft architectural changing, and their subtle
effects so fascinating the lover of - Steven Solomon - Water – The Epic Struggle
be a meaningful
hides a well."– Thompson King, Water, Miracle of Nature may be sure: Man must eat liquid drops. Let the rain
- National Geographic, October 1993 -
and at every many ways, and which would land.""The health of
policy that's not quite
many ignored aha with outdated and that a fractured, ad hoc, haphazard mish-mash of random, inconsistent, and stove-piped projects, administered by a trying to get
can only watch, Doomsday follows.”
blame it for “Any party which world."
"Water is the
