Consider the weight of water.
It is the most destructive force on Earth. And yet at time is seems it is almost lighter than air.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” Lao Tzu
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” W. H. Auden
“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.” Kahlil Gibran
“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” Loren Eiseley
“We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.” Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Water is the driving force of all nature.” Leonardo da Vinci
“A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.” Lucy Larcom
(Pop quiz: Find the drop that looks like a skull).
“The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.” Lucretius
“What’s exceptional about our blue marble is not that we had water. It’s that we held on to it, and that we still do. While the ancient oceans of Venus and Mars vaporized into space, Earth kept its life-giving water. Cynthia Barnett
