Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841Quotes
If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCThe waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbThere’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935