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“Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases than any other cause of death on this planet. With a higher rate of suffering and mortality than diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, or war; or any two combined for that matter! An entire economy is growing around water. Those without money are suffering the most and risk severe illness from contaminated sources”

“Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.”

Humans Reason Water Source Higher Human Reason

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The ability of human beings to be creative depends fundamentally on the health and well-being of our biosphere, the few kilometres of air, water, and soil that surround our planet like the skin of an apple. Quite simply, they are the physical and spiritual bases of our lives, and the only source of materials and tools.”

“My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine.”

Water Divine Source Draws Scripture Fountain

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“Access to a secure, safe and sufficient source of fresh water is a fundamental requirement for the survival, well-being and socio-economic development of all humanity. Yet, we continue to act as if fresh water were a perpetually abundant resource. It is not.”

Ifs Wells Humanity Water Economic Source Development Safe Survival Resources Fundamentals Access Secure Well Being Sufficient Requirements Economic Development Fresh Water

Author:Kofi Annan

“The value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income.”

Needs Looks Values Water Land Products Source Pure Constant Property Valuable Income Owners Yield Pure Water

Author:Bill Mollison

“Water symbolizes the whole of potentiality - the source of all possible existence.”

Whole Water Existence Source

Author:Mircea Eliade

“The impulse of humanity toward social progress is like the movement in the currents of a great water system, from myriad sources and under myriad circumstances and conditions, beating onward, ever onward toward its eternity, the Ocean.”

Humanity Social Water Progress Conditions Movement Source Circumstances Ocean Eternity Currents Impulse Social Change Social Progress

Book:The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“Water will not flow from a faucet that is not connected to its source.”

Water Source Flow Connected

Author:Mary Morrissey

“Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.”

“If you take a glass of water and separate it from its source - the ocean - then pour the water away from its source and ask it to sustain life, it flitters away. It just evaporates. It can't sustain life. That's a metaphor for us when we separate ourselves from our source and believe that God is separate from us.”

Ifs Believe Asks Water Source Ocean Metaphor Glasses

Author:Wayne Dyer

“God is like the ocean and we're like that glass of water. We try to sustain life and do all that the source tells us that we are capable of doing, but if we do it alone, we wither away and collapse instead.”

Ifs Trying Water Source Ocean Capable Glasses Collapse

Author:Wayne Dyer

“We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.”

People Soul Spirit Water Knowing Source Blessing Protect Rivers Environmental Showers Rivers And Water Water Is Life

Author:Thomas Moore

“As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite.”

Men Way Lasts Law Water Nature Loses Consciousness Quality Source Return Ocean Infinite Silent Depth Smallest Detached Drop Of Water

Book:The Way of Peace

Source: The Way of Peace

“Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.”

Hands Water Practice Source Clean Good Person Hygiene Clean Water Personal Hygiene

Author:James Wright