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
“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
...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
Kerala has a history of being resilient... in a short span we had several crises - floods, Nipah, Ockhi, etc. — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
“but now it all floods back—the euphoria of loving her, the agony that she's leaving, that i'll lose her” — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
Climate change brings increasingly frequent and severe weather patterns and this means more floods. — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
“...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and… — Missouri Williams 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
Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I was 15 when Hugo Chavez came to power in 1998. At the time, I lived in Vargas State, which borders the… — Juan Guaido Copy Share Image
All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and… — Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures… — Gary Miller 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
“Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: roiling brown water, bloated… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Now come the floods. They charge down atavistic canyons drinking furiously out of thunderstorms, coming one after the next with vomited boulders… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
Global warming is actually a misnomer. It should be global extremes and global swings, because you add - as you add more… — Michio Kaku 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
“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
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
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
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
“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 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
“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
