Environmentalists changed the word jungle to rain forest…

“Thoreau the “Patron Saint of Swamps” because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, “my temple is the swamp… When I…

— Henry David Thoreau

I look at it this way... For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature: clear-cutting forests,…

— George Carlin

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have…

— Matt Gonzalez

A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking,…

— Elizabeth Cunningham

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits…

— David Suzuki

Tundra is a huge, forever frozen wetland covering the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean.

— Palmer Cox

Im a strong proponent of the restoration of the wetlands, for a lot of reasons. Theres a practical reason, though, when it comes to…

— George W. Bush

For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost…

— Sandra Postel

He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his…

— Lisa Lang

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our…

— Cedric Richmond

The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The…

— Paul Brown

Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He…

— Richard Darman

“Everything that’s sexy — mussed hair, straps that fall off the shoulder, a sweaty glow on the face — is a bit askew, yes,…

— Anonymous

Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water…

— Ramez Naam

The "developed" nations had given to the "free market" the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands, and communities,…

— Wendell Berry