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Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.”

Has Beens Done Force Water Republican Tasks Legacy Lakes Proposal Legislature Great Lakes Task Forces

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.”

Soul Peace Water Emotion Divine Violent Your Soul Lakes Disturbed Tempest

Book:I leap over the wall: a return to the world after twenty-eight years in a convent

Source: I leap over the wall: a return to the world after twenty-eight years in a convent

“When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.”

May Water Consciousness Clear Wind Pure Mountain Moved Mediums Realization Lakes Ripe Serene Clear Water Mountain Lakes

Book:A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen

Source: A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen

“Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a lake, 'Twill form in circles round succeeding round; Each wider than the first.”

Firsts Soul Form Water Crime Succeed Stones Guilt Rounds Casts Circles Lakes Troubled Waters

Author:George Colman the Elder

“The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.”

Doe States Water Dark Morning Sun Promise Moon Rain Blue Wide Dawn Lakes Autumn Eagles Mississippi Rosy Sun Rise Delta Deep Water Mississippi Delta

Book:Wolf Whistle

Source: Wolf Whistle

“Apart from the obvious advantages of having ice to melt, filter, then drink, you can also break apart the water's hydrogen from its oxygen. Use the hydrogen and some of the oxygen as active ingredients in rocket fuel and keep the rest of the oxygen for breathing. And in your spare time between space missions, you can always go ice skating on the frozen lake created with the extracted water.”

Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.”

Men Writing Said Water Common Air Sea Century Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Ads Seashore Flowing Water Justinian

Book:The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat

Source: The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat

“I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.”

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“When I think about what makes Canada great, fresh water is right at the top of the list. We have over two million lakes in this country and more than enough people who are willing to mess with them. My Canada includes weird scientists who are devoted to keeping our water clean. When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Wells Two Country Enough Might Water Millions Willing Giving Up Scientist Down And Clean Lists Mess Thee Canada Lakes Devoted Pledge Fresh Water

Author:Rick Mercer

“If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.”

Ifs Heart Stills Water Clear Sky Taste Pure Ocean Cups Lakes Salt Salty Fresh Water

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for shipping companies, marinas and other businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water withdrawals for expanding suburbs. "A lot of people just can't believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes," said Sarah Nerenberg, a water engineer with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, which conducted the study on shortages.”

“Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is always asked about Lake Erie: how can we restore it? I believe the only valid answer is that no one knows. For it should be clear that even if overnight all of the pollutants now pouring into Lake Erie were stopped, there would still remain the problem of the accumulated mass of pollutants in the lake bottom.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Believe Stills Problem I Believe Water Answers Clear Mass Crisis Impact Environmental Bottom Meaningful Lakes Pouring Most Meaningful Environmental Crisis Lake Erie

Author:Barry Commoner

“Although the United States has made tremendous progress cleaning up its water by removing billions of pounds of pollutants and doubling the number of waterways safe for fishing and swimming, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted lake, river, stream or coastal area.”

Made States Water United Numbers United States Progress Safe Areas Rivers Majority Environmental Billions Miles Streams Lakes Fishing Pounds Swimming Cleaning Cleaning Up Coastal

Author:Carol Browner

“The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit those regions. The fish of the Great Lakes are laced with mercury from industrial plants, and fluoride from aluminum plants poisons the land and the people. Sewage from the population centers is mixed with PCBs and PBS in the watershed of the great lakes and the Finger Lakes, and the water is virtually nowhere safe for any living creatures.”

Source: All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life

“When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox.”

Thinking Looks Ideas Whole Home Body Lying Water Drink Desert Isolation Lakes Paradox Salt Liquid Bodies Of Water

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon the surface of a stagnant lake, with a certain constant velocity, and to enter a narrow channel leading out of the lake. Suppose then another similar cause to have excited another equal series of waves, which arrive at the same time, with the first. Neither series of waves will destroy the other, but their effects will be combined.”

Firsts Moving Science Certain Causes Water Numbers Effects Equal Constant Series Wave Excited Surface Lakes Stagnant Velocity

Book:Miscellaneous Works: Scientific memoirs

Source: Miscellaneous Works: Scientific memoirs

“I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.”

Knows Ends Water Imagination Lines Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Fisherman Fly Fishing Angling Great Fishing Funny Fishing Funny Fish

Author:Robert Altman

“We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared.”

Water Goes On Basketball Superiors Diets Lakes Stanley Funny Basketball

Author:Pat Williams

“...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.”

Water Forever Sea Rivers Caught Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Lament

Author:Tom Sutcliffe

“Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.”

Water Rivers Streams Lakes Destination

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the landscape surrounding the lake, so manageable. The leaves and the sand are so close, it's as if you might, if you wanted, pull them on over your head. And the lake always laps at the shore so gently, licking the hand you dip into it like a young dog, and the water is soft and shallow.”

Ifs Home Hands Might Wanted Young Water Dog Rain Smell Forests Landscape Sand Lakes Over You Shore Shallow Lap Dip Manageable Licking

Book:Visitation

Source: Visitation

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