If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to… — John Beddington Copy Share Image
the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
Bopha, Sandy, floods in Pakistan, droughts in China… How many reports from the likes of the World Bank, NASA and the International… — Steven Guilbeault Copy Share Image
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Genetically modified foods are really just better crops. They're more nutritious. They're more resistant to drought, pests, and that sort of thing. — Joseph Rago Copy Share Image
Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes. Flooding, storms, droughts are all getting people talking about climate change. I… — David Titley 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
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
The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Nowhere is this challenge more critical -- and the need for action more pressing -- than in the Horn of Africa. From… — Rajiv Shah Copy Share Image
Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to… — Ben Nelson 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
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
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
Favorite rap album? Damn. Lil Wayne's mixtapes... He got a lot of good mixtapes like 'Da Drought 3.' — Jamal Murray 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
If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong,… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
