When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we're seeing. — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
Ladakh has changed a lot. Flash floods are common, followed by drought. — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help. — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
They always say to Californians that we don't have seasons. Of course, that is not true. We have fire, flood, mud and… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the… — Mike Rounds Copy Share Image
Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Warm air holds more water vapor than cold, and so the atmosphere is about 4% wetter than it was 40 years ago.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and… — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I was the muddled concoction of my father’s contradictions. The same man who warned me that “life is a bowl-a shit” was… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“And at last, becoming a complete misanthrope, he used to live, spending his time in walking about the mountains; feeding on grasses… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“At 6:15 she was standing on her front porch watering gardenias and watching another line of thunderstorms split and go around her.… — Andrew Geyer 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
I think the place maybe to watch with the greatest worry right at the moment, and to try to help the most,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no… — Barack Obama 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
“We tend to take summer's vitality for granted, when in actuality it is just one prolonged drought, or disease, away from decimation.” — Sue Leaf Copy Share Image
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains. I love her… — Dorothea Mackellar Copy Share Image
Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on… — Lembit Opik Copy Share Image
I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
People are finally able to look around and say, 'I can see the drought, I can see the rising sea levels, I… — Robert Redford 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
“Drought indeed stressed the system, but the societal disintegration in the south was due not to surpassing inherent ecological limits but the… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Deliver me from the long drought of the mind. Let leaves from the deciduous Cross fall on us, washing us clean, turning… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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