Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man. — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Then throughout the day, mankind played with grenades...Cold hearted world!” — Pantera Copy Share Image
A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Ladakh has changed a lot. Flash floods are common, followed by drought. — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
Kerala has a history of being resilient... in a short span we had several crises - floods, Nipah, Ockhi, etc. — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
“Noah was so shut in that no evil could reach him. Floods did but lift him heavenward, and winds did but waft… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms. — John Holdren Copy Share Image
The love of youth, river floods are similar to the boom. The leaves are a sign of destruction behind — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within… — John Muir Copy Share Image
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The floods and fires and storms and droughts that Australia has suffered in the last few years have left no doubt in… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it… — Samantha Stosur Copy Share Image
Americans think they're the leader of the world and yet can say that they're putting their economic interests ahead of the lives… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“It was not as beatific as one might imagine to live under continuous precipitation in a desert. The ground, instead of enjoying… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to… — Laura Haddock Copy Share Image
“At this very moment, the thumb of Ricardo's hovering shadow jabbed her in her left eye, revealing for all the world the… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“Water in flood means exactly what it says. It has no hypocrisy. Even as it murders, it leaves life behind and carves… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“Yes, an actual full-sized camel. If you find that confusing, just think how the criosphinx must have felt. Where did the camel… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
“No matter the border, the Mekong has been an indiscriminate giver and taker of life in Southeast Asia for thousands of years.… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“Mungu hutumia watu 'wajinga' na 'wapumbavu' kufanya mambo makubwa katika maisha yao na ya watu wengine. Katika Biblia, Musa aliitwa mjinga alipokiuka… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“Submerged Suburbia by Stewart Stafford Fell out of bed, dragging my soul, Looked out the old goldfish bowl, To see suburbia was… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Many waters cannot quench the thirst for love,nor can the floods drown it.” — Madeline L'Engle Copy Share Image
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. — Bible Copy Share Image
When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Floods are an act of God; flood damages result from the acts of men.” — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
