I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control… — Alice Hoffman 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
Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. — Norman Borlaug 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
It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Slaps in the face like this provide opportunities for change. A drought definitely gets people thinking about how they can manage resources… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
We also look at farming. Are we making sure that we're getting the latest seeds out to women so they can get… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The report falsely asserts that global warming is causing more extreme weather events, more droughts, more record high temperatures, more wildfires, warmer… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
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
The things that happen are an earthquake, another bomb in Iraq, some big jolt on Wall Street in oil prices, and then… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Without the rich - without those who accumulated capital - those poor who could exist at all would be very much poorer… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
He sank into that kiss, and fed from me like a starving man holding off famine. I drank from his soul in… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
There are plenty of publicly-funded organizations and nonprofits that are trying to develop GMO crops that could help feed people in developing… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Much of the image of the amazingness of America comes from the movies into other cultures. And it's much the same thing… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
To my knowledge, not a single scientist at the Hurricane Research Division, the National Hurricane Center, or the Joint Typhoon Warning Center… — Stanley B. Goldenberg Copy Share Image
Lil Wayne is somebody who I used to ride to school listening to in my car. You know from Tha Carter to… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“Not every dream grows on every land, so you got to watch out! “Sugar cane” dreams should find the environment where there… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet - because climate change is not… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought,… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human… — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Undaunted faith can stop the mouths of lions, make ineffective the fiery flames, make dry corridors through beds of rivers and seas.… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Sexual immorality and impure thoughts violate the standard established by the Savior. We were warned at the beginning of this dispensation that… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
The mountain glaciers in every region of the world are melting, many of them at an accelerated rate, threatening drinking supplies -… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
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