Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth…Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Hydroelectric dams remain the way many poor countries gain access to reliable electricity, and both solar and wind might be worthwhile in… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until… — Patrick F. McManus Copy Share Image
There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“A dam tears at all the interconnected webs of river valley life.” — Patrick McCully Copy Share Image
Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Home is my Bethlehem, my succoring shelter, my mental hospital, my wife, my dam, my husband, my sir, my womb, my skull. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“A dam is monumentally static; it tries to bring a river under control, to regulate its seasonal pattern of floods and low… — Patrick McCully Copy Share Image
“Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more.” — Tim Palmer Copy Share Image
The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Satan does not have a body, and his eternal progress has been halted. Just as water flowing in a riverbed is stopped… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they’ll make a dam. Every… — Mark Gonzales Copy Share Image
There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of… — Leonard Boswell Copy Share Image
We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and… — David Sobel Copy Share Image
If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
What I want is natural gas to be a bridge to a cleaner energy future, not a dam against a cleaner energy… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can." Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There is no one ugly, deep, dark, powerful or evil enough to stop God from loving you. Nothing anyone can ever do… — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
We in Himalaya are facing a crisis of survival due to the suicidal activities being carried out in the name of development…… — Sunderlal Bahuguna Copy Share Image
A friend of mine helped me find my confidence by trusting the knowledge that I was not alone in writing my first… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper. "Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole." "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow.… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Free shackled rivers!...The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image