Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man. — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there. — Farid al-Din Attar Copy Share Image
The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down. — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
And then I feel as if I'm witnessing a miracle, as ever so slowly she raises her face towards the moon. I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be… — John Beddington Copy Share Image
I can understand how evolution says, "don't believe in God", but I've never had this problem. I've always loved His creation. Unfortunately,… — Betty Cuthbert Copy Share Image
I believe water will be the defining crisis of our century — from droughts, storms, and floods to degrading water quality. We'll… — Alexandra Cousteau Copy Share Image
Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben -… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded. — Jessie Burton 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
The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
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