Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a… — Will Carleton Copy Share Image
You have to always be planting seeds because the second that you kind of think that you're in a cush position, you'll… — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague,… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought. — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for the end… — Grigory Zinoviev Copy Share Image
We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Back in the days of the great Depression, an old sign dangled by one staple from a piece of rusting barbed wire.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There… — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies, That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife That with moist tears embraces… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
We need healthy forests if we want to protect our climate. As the climate changes, forests become more vulnerable to insect outbreaks,… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
You read statistics all the time like, "13 million people are at risk because of the severe drought in East Africa," but… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows.… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
For those of us who worry more about working people than about windfall profits for oil companies, it may net out. A… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Global warming is a justice issue. It's a justice issue because global warming is theft - theft from our own children and… — Fred Small Copy Share Image
I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
There's real economic costs to climate change - So, Superstorm Sandy led to billions of dollars in damages. The fires out in… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don't necessarily see… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s,… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being… — Christopher Landsea Copy Share Image
We have had drought where I live in New Mexico for several years, and I began to think about rain and green… — Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Copy Share Image
Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The first big effects will be farmers that live on the edge. Today's weather, they barely get by. Their kids, a high… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It is a fact that, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. It is a fact… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
“Humans and nature can never be friends! Nature will never hesitate to starve you in the drought, drown you in the rain,… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
You turn on the shower or you do whatever, but especially right now with the drought in California, there are so many… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
“He discovered that a slight oscillation, less than 1°F, in the surface temperatures of the oceans—a cooler than normal tropical Pacific Ocean… — Linda Marsa Copy Share Image
“He rode out in the dark long before daylight and he rode the sun up and he rode it down again. In… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
