A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Then throughout the day, mankind played with grenades...Cold hearted world!” — Pantera Copy Share Image
Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man. — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Floods are an act of God; flood damages result from the acts of men.” — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
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
And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody. — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“Water in flood means exactly what it says. It has no hypocrisy. Even as it murders, it leaves life behind and carves… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“Submerged Suburbia by Stewart Stafford Fell out of bed, dragging my soul, Looked out the old goldfish bowl, To see suburbia was… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Yes, an actual full-sized camel. If you find that confusing, just think how the criosphinx must have felt. Where did the camel… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
“No matter the border, the Mekong has been an indiscriminate giver and taker of life in Southeast Asia for thousands of years.… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“Mungu hutumia watu 'wajinga' na 'wapumbavu' kufanya mambo makubwa katika maisha yao na ya watu wengine. Katika Biblia, Musa aliitwa mjinga alipokiuka… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“Many waters cannot quench the thirst for love,nor can the floods drown it.” — Madeline L'Engle Copy Share Image
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. — Bible Copy Share Image
When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Ladakh has changed a lot. Flash floods are common, followed by drought. — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
