While we sit in our air-conditioned homes and eat, drink and make merry like cattle in a feedlot without the slightest thought about the consequences of our consumption of water, food and energy, we only hasten the destruction—in the long term—of our kind.
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Without water, California is without a future.
Only 3 percent of water on earth is freshwater, the rest is saltwater. Fresh drinking water is becoming increasingly scarce. Only 20 percent of the world's population has running water, and more than one billion people do not have any access to clean water.
What kind of water do cats like? Purrrified water.
[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.
It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs and snows of our mountains. This is the beverage we should drink. It should be our drink at all times.
If you think about it, water is the majority shareholder of your body.
What does American beer and sex in a canoe have in common? It's both fucking close to water
What did the fertile spot in the desert with water tell it's sister? Oh, ey sis
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction — up, down, sideways — by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.
We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too. And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.
Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember tha…
Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.
When I come out of the ocean my eyes are sparkling. I feel like I’m reborn.
Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football — I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.
It had struck me a long time back that the dream of letting go into water is prevalent in the work of alcoholic writers. I'd been collecting them up, these little fantasies of cleanliness, purification, dissolution and death. Some were healthful: antidotes to a kind of felt dirtiness gathering elsew…