W. H. Auden Quotes

People must have water, affordable, necessary water.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

There's a huge question of whether you really need water for life.

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

In many developing countries environmental problems are relegated to the periphery because they do not appear to be as urgent as other issues … We cannot survive without clean drinking water, food and pure air. Environmental concerns are not a luxury in Africa.

No man can live well, or indeed live at all, unless he be provided with necessaries.

We'll never know the worth of water till the well goes dry.

No water—no jobs.

When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water.

Water is the best of all things.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

I think water’s, like, a really important thing.

A world without love would be no world.

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

I care about facts the way I care about oxygen and imbibing enough water a day to live.

Without rain, there would be no life.

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.

you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books.

The absolute worst part of being depressed is the food. A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships. I don't think your relationship with your parents is that important. Some people never know their parents. I don't think your relationship with your friends are important. But your relationship with air-that's key. You can't break up with air. You're kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can't be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it.