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Even having to water flowers is too much constraint.
For those who don't live in a place where water is readily available, it's something you carry on your back for six kilometers, that makes your children sick, that is perhaps the hardest part of your existence.
With ceremony, with forms of politeness and reassurance, they borrowed the waters of the River and its little confluents to drink and be clean and irrigate with, using water mindfully, carefully. They lived in a land that answers greed with drought and death. A difficult land: aloof yet sensitive.
Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.
You may break the clods, you may sow your seeds, but what can you do without the rain? As absolutely needful is the divine blessing.
You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself.
Where's the dam water fountain I'm thirsty?
The parched know --
real thirst
draws rainwater
from an empty sky.
You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
Water Source and earthbound substance in endless theme and variation. There is need of rest, renewal and appreciation of the ever-changing landscape.
If you want water, do not go to desert...
Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.
Folly growes without watering.
Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.
water wants to flow,
Every time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God!
That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.
Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.
As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated.
Water is the key to dealing with the twin challenges of poverty and growth.
The grass is not only greener on the side you water but also on the side you prevent preys from feeding on. Learn to keep out the preys and see your lawn flourish.
The winter requires whoever is doing the watering to have a bit of faith, in order to believe that what looks empty has every potential.
Water is an astonishingly complex and subtle force in an economy. It is the single constraint on the expansion of every city, and bankers and corporate executives have cited it as the only natural limit to economic growth.
Rainwater purls from cloud to roof to eave.
Water you dead bastard
When the well is dry we know the value of water
Hopes are plants, which need care, love, and irrigation.
In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The story of their efforts is, on the whole, one of pathos and tragedy, of a few successes and many failures
Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.
Love water, protect it:
Simple, easy actions can protect the health of our water resources and help save drinking water supplies. There is not one individual who cannot help to make a difference to the health of the environment
For one short wet month early in the next year the drought lifted. Spring tipped in like green well water frothing at the hedges bubbling at the roadside splashing from the cottage roof in garlands of ivy and stringflower
Water can be a blessing or a curse. Too often we make conservation about saving a whale, a coral reef or a marsh. But we don't make it about saving life. The one thing that every single human being has in common is our need for water.
Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in
The only seed that needs regular watering is our imagination.
I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.
Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.
You cannot force a dry well to yield water.
But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.
Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.
You can't draw water from an empty well.
Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.
For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.
Don't waste water even if you were at a running stream
Water is the driving force in nature.
Streets full of water. Please Advise.
The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.
California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
The gods preferring their libations diluted with rainwater and mixed with freshly cut grass.
As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater.
If it never rained, nothing would grow.
Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains
Refusal to participate is a moral choice. Water is a gift for all, not meant to be bought and sold. Don't buy it. When food has been wrenched from the earth, depleting the soil and poisoning our relatives in the name of higher yields, don't buy it.
The river that never run Dry, always have a generous amend to flourish
That which God plants he will take care to keep watered.
Plough your fields, cast your seeds, the rains will come when they please.
A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.
The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.
We wish to be watered; we must daily mediate on the word of God.
When this flood blocks the road
I am worried more
by my soil getting washed,
than by getting late
to reach my destination.
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
When watering your plants, try to talk to them - say something like, Hold it right there and then shoot them with water gun.
The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
The watering of a garden requires as much judgement as the seasoning of a soup.
The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water.
A flowing stream waters the flowers.
The river has indeed become an inefficient conduit, but the same plaque that plugs this artery used to hold back the flow when it was soil in the hills. Now the land just bleeds when it rains.
There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with this." Who would make their plants hard to reach? That seems so very mean. I know you need water, but I'm going to make you hard to reach. "Think like a cactus!"
Water is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
Only the living water can satisfied our thirst.
Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.
Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.
Often the most painful rains, grows the most beautiful flowers
In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.
If their occupation is actual work they prefer to pump water into cisterns,
two of which leak through holes in the bottom and one of
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It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.
It is well to have some water in your neighborhood, to give buoyancy to and float the earth.
Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.
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.
Without water the desert is nothing but a grave ...
All the rain that fell since the world began won't cure today's drought.
The water reclaimer was designed to purify urine and strain humidity out of the air (you exhale almost as much water as you piss). I've mixed my water with soil, making it mineral water. The minerals built up in the water reclaimer.
The biggest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons.
The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency.
Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone, must become available to all people now.
Our CII building in Hyderabad has zero discharge of water. Every drop of water is treated and reused.
Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.
A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a net, can be restored to wholeness.
My goal is that after seeing 'Grand Canyon,' every person in the audience will go home knowing they have to conserve water: even something as simple as installing a low-flow toilet or showerhead, or turning off the faucet while they're brushing their teeth.
Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.
We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.
To feed our people we must first feed our soil
How very wet this water is.
In my district, I know we have thousands of little creeks and streams, some of which only fill up when it rains. Nationwide, they're in the tens of thousands.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.