Business Quote by Arundhati Roy

Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol…

— Arundhati Roy

“Dams are built with the intent of a 100-year lifetime — just long enough for societies to become completely dependent on them”

— Daniel Lenihan

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

— Arthur Golden

In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're…

— Arundhati Roy

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

— Stephen Ambrose

“A dam is monumentally static; it tries to bring a river under control, to regulate its seasonal pattern of floods and low flow.”

— Patrick McCully

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

— Austin O'Malley

“Dams also tend to be built in remote areas which are the last refuge for species that have been displaced by development in other…

— Patrick McCully

To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When…

— David Quammen

We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We're here in the rain forest, and we have plenty…

— Eduardo Bhatia

“In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.”

— Tim Palmer

An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often…

— Lyndon B. Johnson