Famous quotes on water

Water is a mystery that can't be solved by scientists and philosophers. But people have understood its importance. After all if they didn't there will be no such quotations:

"Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it."

Lao Tzu

"Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive".

Sandra Postel

People are not adapted to live in water. They live on lands, but still they have learned to swim and not to sink. People invented a great number of ships that are able to cross oceans and seas:

"Man is not an aquatic animal, but from the time we stand in youthful wonder beside a spring brook till we sit in old age and watch the endless roll of the sea, we feel a strong kinship with the waters of this world."

Hal Borland

But people pollute water without thinking about their future and their needs, so people simply try not to pay attention to it. But water suffers a lot from it:

"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"

Rachel Carson

"Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy." (Author is unknown) Really water may be so powerful that people can't stop wondering. Water is able to kill people. Remember thousands of cases when people died because they couldn't swim, when storms damaged ships with a great number of people abroad, huge tsunami that damaged the cities and their inhabitants and of course a great number of rainfalls that flooded cities of the world and took the lives of people who lived there.

And the conclusion of it may be the poem "The Secret of the Sea" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"My soul is full of longing

For the secret of the Sea,

And the heart of the great ocean

Sends a thrilling pulse through me."

Pay attention to water. Take care of it and then the water is going to take care of you.