Some weeks later I visited the village again and found the same women using the old waterhole; the well stood nearby, still full of clean water but apparently unused.
Brian Little
Read This: The Origin of the Amazon
The two other brothers kept on running, all the water now spilling from the barrels. That is how the Amazon river started.
Unnamed
Read This: The Pencil vs. The Pail
In that very moment, Isabel understood how her life, like that of her mother and all her grandmothers before her, would be measured by a pail of water.
Nancy J. Haws
Read This: W. H. Auden
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden
Read This: A Great Mother Named Mekong
For centuries the Mekong River looked after herself, as she looked after us. Today, we must learn to look after her in return. We are all sons and daughters of the water.
Charles Bautista
Read This: Half Broke Horses
Never take water for granted, Jim said. Always cherish it. Always beware of it.
Jeannette Walls
WORDS OVER WATER 