There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995Quotes
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BCSpit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbHe knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbIron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987Water has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.
—Christopher Hitchens, 2008Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCWater is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCEvery memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverb