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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

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

—John Updike, 1989

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.

—Clover Adams, 1882

Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.

—Ge Hong, c. 300

There is no small pleasure in sweet water.

—Ovid, c. 10

Too often, where we need water we find guns.

—Ban Ki-moon, 2008

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

—Zadie Smith, 2000

No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.

—Horace, 35 BC

The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.

—Izaak Walton, 1653

When you drink water, think of its source.

—Chinese proverb

There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995

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

—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935