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  • The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

  • A fish swims in the ocean, and no matter how far it swims there is no end to the water. A bird flies in the sky, and no matter how far it flies there is no end to the air. However the fish and the bird have never left their elements. Thus each of them totally covers its full range, and each of them totally experiences its realm... Know that water is life and air is life. The bird is life and the fish is life. Life must be the bird and life must be the fish... practice, enlightenment and people are like this.

    Ocean   Practice   Sky  
  • I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one "owns" water. It might rise on your property, but it just passes through. You can use it, and abuse it, but it is not yours to own. It is part of the global commons, not "property" but part of our life support system.

    Marq De Villiers (2001). “Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

    Rain   Rivers   Water  
    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.53, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

    Rain   Moving   Memorable  
  • To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

    Nature   Hands   Rivers  
  • You don't miss your water 'Till your well runs dry.

    Running   Water   Missing  
    "You Don't Miss Your Water". Song by William Bell, 1965.
  • The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

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

    Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard (2008). “What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.

  • To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.

    Spring   Fall   Rivers  
  • Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

    Running   Time   Rain  
    "A River Runs Through It" (1976)
  • We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

  • Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

    Life   Science   Dancing  
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (2012). “The Living State: With Observations on Cancer”, p.9, Elsevier
  • Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

    Life   Rain   Sky  
  • Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.

  • Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.

    Art   Rain   Color  
  • A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

    Moving   Rain   Memorable  
  • We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.

  • Water is life. We are the people who live by the water. Pray by these waters. Travel by the waters. Eat and drink from these waters. We are related to those who live in the water. To poison the waters is to show disrespect for creation. To honor and protect the waters is our responsibility as people of the land.

    Winona LaDuke (2002). “The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings”, p.55, Voyageur Press (MN)
  • Water is life is love is life is water.

    Love Is   Water   Life Is  
    "Diane von Furstenberg Designs an Evian Bottle" by Tommye Fitzpatrick, www.elle.com. November 1, 2012.
  • Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can we afford life itself? Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of our nation, and they deserve no answers as we finally move to restore and renew them. These questions answer themselves.

    Ocean   Moving   Lakes  
  • Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

  • Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

    "Pierre Noziere". Book by Anatole France, 1899.
  • Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.

    Fate   Rivers   Air  
  • Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

    "A River Runs Through It" (1976)
  • Water is our most precious and interconnected natural resource. It sustains all ecosystems, communities, and economies from local watersheds to the seas. It's vital to sustaining our health, safety, and the environments in which we live and work. Simply put, water is life.

    Sea   Ecosystems   Safety  
    "2014 New Year’s Resolution" by Alexandra Cousteau, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2013.
  • To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.

    Rain   Rivers   Water  
    Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA
  • Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

  • The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

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