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Droplets of Water Wisdom

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Water-Related Books of Note
Recommended by lawyers in Holland & Hart's Water Law Practice Group

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
Beyond the 100th Meridian by Wallace Stegner
Brown-on-Brown by Manuel Ramos
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
The Earth is Enough by Harry Middleton
English Creek by Ivan Doig
Flush by Carl Hiassen (for young teenagers)
The Girl of The Sea of Cortez by Peter Benchley
The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian, and the entire Aubrey-Maturin Series
The Meadow by Jim Galvan
The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
The River King by Alice Hoffman
The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
The River Why by David James Duncan
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
The Secret Knowledge of Water by Craig Childs
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
What You See in Clear Water by Geoffrey O'Gara
Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg

Water-Related Songs

10 Degrees and Getting Colder
Gordon Lightfoot
Across The Great Divide Nanci Griffith
And It Stoned Me Van Morrison
Blue Bayou Linda Ronstadt
Box of Rain The Grateful Dead
Bridge Over Troubled Water Paul Simon
Christian Island (Georgian Bay) Gordon Lightfoot
Cripple Creek Leo Kottke
Down By The River Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Down To The River To Pray Emmylou Harris
Down To The River To Pray Soggy Bottom Boys
Early Morning Rain Bob Dylan
Early Morning Rain Gordon Lightfoot
Fins Jimmy Buffett
Fire And Rain James Taylor
Four Seasons Antonio Vivaldi
Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall Bob Dylan
Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
Creedence Clearwater Revival
La Mer Kevin Kline
Let It Rain
Eric Clapton
Many Rivers to Cross Jimmy Cliff
The Moldau Bedrich Smetana
Muddy Water Keb' Mo'
Rainmaker Keb' Mo'
Ripple Grateful Dead
River Joni Mitchell
Rivers of Babylon The Melodians
Shenandoah Bruce Springsteen
Sloop John B Beach Boys

Suite No. 1 for Unaccompanied Cello
in G Major, BWV 1007: Prélude

Yo-Yo Ma
The Tide is High Atomic Kitten
Under the Sea The Little Mermaid
Up On Cripple Creek The Band
Water Music George Frideric Handel
Water Music Suite No. 2, HV 349
in D Major: Alla Hornpipe
Handel
Watershed Indigo Girls
Who'll Stop The Rain Creedence Clearwater Revival
Where The Coho Flash Silver Sally Rogers
Wide River Steve Miller Band



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