Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life takes you through floods & fires; don't stay there just pass through. A tea bag is good ONLY after it has… — Nushra Copy Share Image
I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and… — Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
“but now it all floods back—the euphoria of loving her, the agony that she's leaving, that i'll lose her” — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
“...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and… — Missouri Williams Copy Share Image
Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
“Flash Floods are about as predictable as a crazy dream after one too many fish tacos - one minutes you're fine, and… — Doreen Cronin 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
Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The Maharashtra government is working out a package for the worst-affected villages of the state in the recent floods. But we know… — Sonia Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Allan Savory has said that floods and droughts are man-made. At first glance this seems a bold, even brazen statement. But here’s… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“The desire of water is scribed across the desert like graffiti, until all that is left of the desert is water… In… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
Climate change brings increasingly frequent and severe weather patterns and this means more floods. — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
“Things were ultimately exacerbated by a series of devastating floods in 1994 and 1995, which destroyed around 1.5 million tons of grain… — Daniel Tudor Copy Share Image
From floods in Iowa and Nebraska to fires in California to hurricanes in Houston and Puerto Rico, we can no longer escape… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We have chosen to bring future generations into this world of rising seas and warming temperatures, droughts and floods, heat waves and… — Leonor Varela Copy Share Image
Global warming is actually a misnomer. It should be global extremes and global swings, because you add - as you add more… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Now come the floods. They charge down atavistic canyons drinking furiously out of thunderstorms, coming one after the next with vomited boulders… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: roiling brown water, bloated… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Floods will become more serious and frequent in the Indo-Gangetic plains. Drought induced food and water scarcity will become more acute. South… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I was 15 when Hugo Chavez came to power in 1998. At the time, I lived in Vargas State, which borders the… — Juan Guaido Copy Share Image
The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures… — Gary Miller Copy Share Image
