World Water Day Quotes

I have little need to remind you that water has become one of our major national concerns.

Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East, but they are completely wrong. We have the problem all over the world.

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.

Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.

The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind.

Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.

Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Every human should have the idea of taking care of the environment, of nature, of water. So using too much or wasting water should have some kind of feeling or sense of concern. Some sort of responsibility and with that, a sense of discipline.

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

A little water clears us of this deed.

I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

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.

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

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.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

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

Every drop in the ocean counts.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it. And yet, most people take water for granted. We waste water needlessly and don't realize that clean water is a very limited resource. More than 1 billion people around the world have no access to safe, clean drinking water, and over 2.5 billion do not have adequate sanitation service. Over 2 million people die each year because of unsafe water - and most of them are children!