Water Quotes

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.

Jared Diamond
- World
- Long
- Water
...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

Arnold Gingrich
- Water
- Fit
- Trout

Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies it as air; and it differs in its substantial nature by rarity and density. Being made finer it becomes fire; being made thicker it becomes wind, then cloud, then (when thickened still more) water, then earth, then stones; and the rest come into being from these.

Theophrastus
- Earth
- Air
- Infinite
When water power then steam power were harnessed to spin and weave cloth, a cottage craft turned into an industry overnight.

Alain Dehaze
- Power
- Water
Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

Margaret Heffernan
- People
- Time
- Red
Not the five feet of water to your chin but the inch above the tip of your nose.

Charles Reznikoff
- Feet
- Nose
- Chin
The fact of the matter is our homes are on the frontlines when it comes to protecting and conserving our critical water resources - more than that, they are also key to protecting our health.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
- Health
- Water
The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.

Jamie Muir
- Time
- God
- Water