Appendix XIV
WISDOM OF WATER
Scientists, philosophers and statesmen, have realized the importance of ‘water’ and have quoted it extensively in their speeches and writings.
A few of them have been quoted here.
If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, … (this) would be in the long-range interests of humanity which could really dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.
—John F. Kennedy
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
—Jacques Cousteau (1910–1997)
There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.
For this reason there is no substitute for it.
—Lao-Tzu (C.B.C. 550)
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