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"Water is the Hub of Life.
Life originated in the ocean.
Water is its mater and matrix , mother and medium.
Life could leave the ocean when it learnt to grow a skin and take the water with it.
We are still water animals, only we have the water inside, not outside.
We are walking aquarium. We are 20% aqueous solution."

from "The Living State with Observations on Cancer"  by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 1972, New York Academic Press

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Water is the essence of me. Without water, who would I be? My wet milieu, a sea within. Water is life's matrix for kin. The ocean is life's wellspring hub. My cells are bathed in saline nub. A bag of sea within my skin. Water is life's matrix for kin I live beside the sea, and swim, To worship water with a hymn. Welcoming each day to begin! Water is life's matrix for kin.

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