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

—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.

—Plautus, c. 193 BC

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

Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.

—Ge Hong, c. 300

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

—Toni Morrison, 1987

Water has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.

—Christopher Hitchens, 2008

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

—Rumi, c. 1260

The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.

—Charles P. Berkey, 1946

Best is water.

—Pindar, 476 BC

Water is the first principle of everything.

—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BC

Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.

—Anthony Doerr, 2006

A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.

—Ethiopian proverb