Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
Life takes you through floods & fires; don't stay there just pass through. A tea bag is good ONLY after it has… — Nushra Copy Share Image
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms. — John Holdren Copy Share Image
The love of youth, river floods are similar to the boom. The leaves are a sign of destruction behind — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within… — John Muir Copy Share Image
We have chosen to bring future generations into this world of rising seas and warming temperatures, droughts and floods, heat waves and… — Leonor Varela Copy Share Image
Floods will become more serious and frequent in the Indo-Gangetic plains. Drought induced food and water scarcity will become more acute. South… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
From floods in Iowa and Nebraska to fires in California to hurricanes in Houston and Puerto Rico, we can no longer escape… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Allan Savory has said that floods and droughts are man-made. At first glance this seems a bold, even brazen statement. But here’s… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
The Maharashtra government is working out a package for the worst-affected villages of the state in the recent floods. But we know… — Sonia Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The desire of water is scribed across the desert like graffiti, until all that is left of the desert is water… In… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
Kerala has a history of being resilient... in a short span we had several crises - floods, Nipah, Ockhi, etc. — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“Noah was so shut in that no evil could reach him. Floods did but lift him heavenward, and winds did but waft… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
“Things were ultimately exacerbated by a series of devastating floods in 1994 and 1995, which destroyed around 1.5 million tons of grain… — Daniel Tudor Copy Share Image
Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
“At this very moment, the thumb of Ricardo's hovering shadow jabbed her in her left eye, revealing for all the world the… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“Flash Floods are about as predictable as a crazy dream after one too many fish tacos - one minutes you're fine, and… — Doreen Cronin Copy Share Image
“It was not as beatific as one might imagine to live under continuous precipitation in a desert. The ground, instead of enjoying… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to… — Laura Haddock Copy Share Image
And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The floods and fires and storms and droughts that Australia has suffered in the last few years have left no doubt in… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it… — Samantha Stosur Copy Share Image
Americans think they're the leader of the world and yet can say that they're putting their economic interests ahead of the lives… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
