Drought Quotes
109 quotes by 97 authors
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It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since…
— John Muir
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Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil gets harder and…
— Joel Salatin
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The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst.
— Taylor Swift
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For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally.…
— Ann Druyan
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You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed…
— Black Elk
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I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.
— Groucho Marx
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
— John Muir
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There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all…
— Jan Schakowsky
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The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence…
— David Suzuki
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the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what…
— Karen Hesse
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If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them,…
— Ayn Rand
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To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An…
— James A. Baldwin
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...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that…
— Starhawk
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I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put out thousands of…
— Janet Fitch
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He sank into that kiss, and fed from me like a starving man holding off famine. I drank from his soul in preparation for the…
— Rachel Vincent
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You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for…
— Lucy Christopher
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb…
— Alexandre Dumas
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I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence…
— Erma Bombeck
Who Wrote These Drought Quotes
97 authors contributed a total of 109 Drought Quotes, led by these top contributors: