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The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.
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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.... Recently, we've managed to wade a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting.
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 03 min 55 sec -
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc..
Source: Two Essays in Analytical Psychology In CW 7 p. 188 -
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
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There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.
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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.
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There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.
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They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
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They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!
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Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.
Source: A Gate at the Stairs (2009) 204 -
This comes at a time when Republicans are looking to gut the Clean Water Act and also the Safe Drinking Water Act. What are our options? Are we now forced to boil water because bottled water is not an economically feasible option for a lot of people?
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This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
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This moment in time will be remembered for three things: the war against terror, sure; the Internet, probably; and how we let an entire continent, Africa, burst into flames and stood around with water in cans.
Source: CNN Larry King Weekend (2002) -
Thoreau gave an otherwise hidden passion and drew from woods and water the love affair with earth and sky he'd recorded in his journals.
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