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Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.

—Gertrude Stein, 1914

I ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.

—Virginia Woolf, 1931

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

—Claude Monet, 1908

Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.

—French proverb

He knows the water best who has waded through it.

—Danish proverb

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.

—Abraham Cowley, 1656

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.

—Zadie Smith, 2000

Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939

I drink for the thirst to come.

—François Rabelais, 1535

Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.

—Rumi, c. 1260

I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923

Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.

—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841

If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

—Margaret Atwood, 2005