Able Quote by Bill McKibben

“For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were accepted as…

— David Suzuki

How come trying to explode myths about Texas always winds up reinforcing them?

— Molly Ivins

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just…

— Bill Janklow

Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man.

— Gilbert F. White

By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.

— Jacqueline Kelly

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!

— Criss Jami

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

— Russel Honore

If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would…

— Malala Yousafzai

Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves…

— Seth Shostak

The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant…

— Cyril Connolly