Dams Quotes

85 Dams quotes by 79 unique authors

There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'" The obvious contradiction… — Robert A. Heinlein
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron… — Robinson Jeffers
There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he… — Jack Handey
One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice. — Adrian Rogers
The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831… — Ezra Cornell
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too… — Derrick Jensen
Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should keep writing, though… — Derrick Jensen
Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and… — Wendell Berry
An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they… — Lyndon B. Johnson
A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel… — Marjorie Fleming
There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and… — Kofi Annan
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair… — Ron Kind
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more… — Thomas A. Edison
He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until they had a… — Patrick F. McManus
Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started,… — Matt Gonzalez
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for… — B.K.S. Iyengar
All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi from… — Jonathan Raban
When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither… — Hal Borland
When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood… — Vance Havner
Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us to our integrity,… — Rachel Naomi Remen
The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of… — Charles Hard Townes
I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away… — David R. Brower
We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine… — David Sobel
Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam… — William Shakespeare

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