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

—Toni Morrison, 1987

He knows the water best who has waded through it.

—Danish proverb

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

—Lord Byron, 1819

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

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

—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995

Far water cannot quench near fire.

—Japanese proverb

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

—Christopher Hitchens, 2008

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

—Gertrude Stein, 1914

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.

—Clover Adams, 1882

Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.

—Anthony Doerr, 2006

When you drink water, think of its source.

—Chinese proverb

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

—Plautus, c. 193 BC