- Nov 07, 2020
Water Quotes
From scarcity to a daily habit, in one word.
These water quotes cover real ground, including a childhood memory of growing up without hot water and a pointed observation about how unevenly water access is rationed between Israel and the West Bank. The Good collection touches on related everyday gratitude.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Water's about everything. And when the federal government controls water, it controls everything - that's the problem.
- Destitute
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't even consider the prospect of grandchildren because I don't know if there will be anything left for them on Earth. That's how serious the problem is. We can't drink the water or breathe the air, and we're all dying from some sort of cancer. How many generations can sustain that? It frightens me terribly.
- Consisting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.
- Swimming
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create, but it is like walking around a swimming pool and hesitating to jump in because the water is too cold.
- Nov 07, 2020
Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
- Basic Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability of communities to meet their most basic needs - food, water, energy, sanitation - is threatened by climate change.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
- Low
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.
- Knife
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.
- Buffer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Businesses that decide to be reality based and identify where they're vulnerable to climate impact, that start thinking about how to buffer against it, are going to be able to take advantage of shortages. When the water runs out, not everyone is in the same pickle.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020