Letter to his sister Margaret on Sir Robert Peel's budget (1842), quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, The Life of John Bright (London: Constable, 1913), pp. 72-73.
1840s
“… the value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income.”
Source: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 7.1
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This Land Is Your Land (1940; 1944)
“If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.”
Si rivus tenuiter fluit, non est alvei culpa, sed fontis.
Letter 17
Letters
“People are not finding potable water and you're bringing me juice? No.”
What Sistani Wants http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6920460/site/newsweek/page/3/ February 2006.
Asceticism
“Further sourcing of these is needed…confirming her as author.”
Yoga: The Hatha Yoga and the Raja Yoga http://books.google.co.in/books?id=2sDu6Xmkh2cC&printsec=frontcover, p. backcover