- 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
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.
- Floats
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- Nov 07, 2020
Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator that just floats around in the water and waits to bump into something. I was never one to imagine it to be passive.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary - that much the culture conceded - but they were oil and water and could not be mixed.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being on the water, wakesurfing and wakeboarding. I'm not thinking about golf. I'm just wondering if my cooler's got enough ice to make it through the day.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020