Be motivated by these water quotes to use water with the appreciation that we have an ample supply of it. In many parts of the world water is not so abundant. When we look at our lakes, rivers and oceans it is hard to imagine a shortage of water, but that
is the reality for many people in many parts of the world. Let these quotes encourage you to use water wisely. You may also enjoy
these poems about water.
If 25 years ago I had said that the majority of Canadians would be drinking bottled water today, you would have laughed. If I were to say now that we may have to breathe bottled air in 25 years if we don’t fundamentally change the way our society works, would you laugh? And if we can't breathe the air, does it really matter whether the government of the day is right or left?"
Jim Harris, Green Party
Recycling Quotes
When you are in deep water trust the one who walked on it.
Author Unknown
Christian Poems
We are running short on water in many parts of the world. Droughts are becoming more common and severe, and the costs of water
and food are going up.
David A. Bainbridge, Gardening with Less Water
Garden Poems
Unlike other natural resources, however, water is also indispensable for the survival of human populations, animals and plants.
To put it simply, water is indispensable for life.
Beatrice Mosello, How to Deal with Climate Change?
Poems About Life
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Ryunosuke Satoro.
Ocean Quotes
Wave by wave o'er the sandy bar, up to the coast lights, glimmering wan, out of the darkness deep and far, slowly the tide came creeping on.
Amelia E. Barr, With The Tide
Ocean Poems
We think we have water in abundance and we take it for granted, something we should never do.
Catherine Pulsifer
Abundance Quotes
Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water.
Korean Proverb
When you go out on the water, you're going out into the unknown. You're going out alone. And when you come back, you're coming back with stories. Stories of adventure, stories of discovery, stories of survival. And these stories make up who we are as human being.
Steve Irwin
Adventure Quotes
A garden without water soon ceases to be a garden at all; nothing can come to perfection, grow, or even live.
Charles H. Spurgeon, A Garden Without Water
God's Garden Poem
When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational Poems
Water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing, in the end, can stand against it. Water is patient.
Margaret Atwood
Patience Poem
When we go with the flow, we follow the current of the water rather than pushing against it.
Madisyn Taylor
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Rumi
Poems About Joy
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pollution Quotes
The water that we need to drink if polluted will definitely shrink.
Catherine Pulsifer, We Are Stewards
Poems About Earth Day
Water may be regarded as a social opportunity in a very basic sense – simply by virtue of the fact that water brings people together.
Seanna L. Davidson, Jamie Linton and Warren E. Mabee, Water as a Social Opportunity
Opportunity Quotes
What we do on land is mirrored in the water...
Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority
Conservation Quotes
Remember, God has caused you to be a river, not a reservoir. The water in a river is pure and clean, but the water in a reservoir is contaminated.
Robert Morris
...water is becoming one of the largest, and certainly the most universal, of problems facing mankind as the earth moves into the twenty-first century.
James Winpenny, Managing Water as an Economic Resource
Problem Quotes
Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.
Lou Erickson
Garden Quotes
Freshwater is also not evenly distributed across the globe. Less than 10 countries hold approximately 60% of the world’s total
available freshwater supply.
Anja du Plessis, Water as an Inescapable Risk
Risk Quotes
When we speak about the oceans, we don’t always picture them as three-dimensional places. Most of us, because we live in this world of land
and sky, see in our mind’s eye the water’s surface and the pitch of the waves, islands at the horizon, and gulls in flight.
Susan Hand Shetterly, Seaweed Chronicles
Easy Poems To Memorize
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
John Burroughs
Simplicity Quotes
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have
become global garbage cans.
Jacques Cousteau
Environment Quotes
...fresh drinking water is a finite resource – the more we waste, the less there is available for both you and for other people. If we use water more effectively we are ensuring there remains a supply available.
Peter J. Witney, How to Save ... Water
Sustainability Quotes
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Justice Quotes
Turning into nature, looking into the sky, into the water or into the leaves, any element will reveal itself, reflecting back to us, exactly where we are.
Nicky Kassapian, Be Yourself
Sky Quotes
Be like a duck, paddling and working hard in the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling, calm face.
Manoj Arora
Motivational Quotes For Work
We don’t know who discovered water, but we’re certain it wasn’t a fish.
John Culkin
Innovation Quotes
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.
Luna Leopold
Life Journey Poems
Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Travel Quotes
Even though approximately 75% of the earth's surface is covered with water, only 3% of this is freshwater - the rest is seawater and undrinkable.
Anja du Plessis, Water as an Inescapable Risk
Thought Provoking Quotes
Water covers more than two-thirds of the Earth’s surface. Ocean plants produce most of the oxygen we breathe, and the deep waters are home to wildlife and some of the biggest creatures on earth.
Suzanne van der Veeken, Ocean Nomad
Life Quotes
