Snow and Ice
Over two-thirds of all the fresh water on the earth are bound in snow and ice. Ice in the form of glaciers is found on all continents, but very unevenly distributed between different parts of the world. Ice that has been created from freezing of water has
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How Water Influences Our Lives
How Water Influences Our Lives
Per Jahren Tongbo Sui •
How Water Influences Our Lives
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Tongbo Sui Sinoma Research Institute Sinoma Int’l. Beijing China
Per Jahren Agder University Asker Norway
ISBN 978-981-10-1937-1 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-1938-8
ISBN 978-981-10-1938-8
(eBook)
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Preface
Water is the life giving and the origin of all matters. This is not just a myth. The fact is that: • Water is a source of human being’s culture and civilization; • Water is in us and around us in an endless buffer. More than 70 % of the surface of the earth is water, and human body generally contains 70 % of water; • There is enough water on the earth;—still there is a lack of water; • Philosophically or culturally water is a phase, a process, a movement, a virtue, and a status. As summarized in Tao Te Ching by Lao Zi, “The highest level of ethics is like water. Water knows how to benefit all things in the world but never contends its own contribution or competes with them. It stays in places loathed by all men, it therefore comes near the Tao”. Water has many folds of characters: • • • • •
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is inclusive and philosophical; can temper force with grace and mercy; has very strong cohesion and infinite capacity; is clear, transparent, fair, and perfectly open in all one’s actions; has the “power” of two opposite sides—blessing and catastrophic.
Few things are like water—a subtle and thought
