Words on Water: Droplets of Wisdom from Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans - Paperback

by Matthew L. Moseley (Curated by), Craig Childs (Foreword by), Michael Fiebig (Afterword by)

Out of water, I am nothing.

Words on Water, the definitive collection of quotes about water, contains over 400 quotes from 200 sources spanning time and culture, including:

T. S. Eliot, Bruce Lee, Lord Byron, Aristotle, Beyonce, Wallace Stegner, Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, David Getches, Terry Tempest Williams, Henry David Thoreau, Billy Strings, Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey, and many others.

In his Foreword, writer and naturalist Craig Childs declares, "Matthew Moseley has gathered voices that if you listen page by page and flutter them through your hands, you should be able to hear something like a creek flowing over pebbles."

With an Afterword by Michael Fiebig of the conservation organization American Rivers.

The river has taught me to listen;

you will learn from it, too.

The river knows everything;

one can learn everything from it.