Words on Water

Name: Words on Water
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ISBN: 9798991328074

Droplets of Wisdom from Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans

Matthew L Moseley, Craig Childs, Michael Fiebig

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CG Sports Management LLC
22 March 2026

Dictionaries of quotations; Philosophy; Environmentalist thought & ideology

Out of water, I am nothing.

Duke Kahanamoku

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.

Hermann Hesse

Afterword by: Michael Fiebig
Foreword by: Craig Childs
Other: Matthew L Moseley
Imprint: CG Sports Management LLC
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 304g
ISBN: 9798991328074
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 22 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Matthew L. Moseley is a communication strategist, author, speaker, and world-record adventure swimmer. He has spent his career at the intersection of public policy, business, and government and has managed many public affairs projects and campaigns for organizations and companies. He works with organizations such at the Upper Colorado River Commission, the Water and Tribes Initiative, American Rivers, the Colorado Water Trust, the Colorado River District, the Getches Wilkinson Center and others. He is the author of three books.He has completed five first-ever record adventure swims and is the subject of the documentary, Dancing in the Water about his 25-mile swim across Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans. The short film Silent River documented his 40 mile swim down the Green River in the Colorado Basin. He is the co-chair of the Colorado River Basin Council for American Rivers and is member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Leadership at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.www.MatthewLMoseley.net