What water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverb
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The smell of rain is rich with life.
—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCHe knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbI came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300I drink for the thirst to come.
—François Rabelais, 1535Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957