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When you drink water, think of its source.

—Chinese proverb

I drink for the thirst to come.

—François Rabelais, 1535

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.

—John Updike, 1989

The history of the land has been written very largely in water.

—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935

Far water cannot quench near fire.

—Japanese proverb

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

—W.H. Auden, 1957

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

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

—Toni Morrison, 1987

Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.

—Lord Byron, 1819

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

—Claude Monet, 1908

What water gives, water takes away.

—Portuguese proverb

Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.

—Ge Hong, c. 300