Freshwater Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by…
— David R. Brower
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Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater on the planet…
— Prince Charles
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Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.
— Sandra Postel
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Agricultural demand for water - probably the largest threat to freshwater species - continues to increase. ... Meanwhile, threats to terrestrial biodiversity - primarily the…
— Indur M. Goklany
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This is a unique aquarium in that a large portion of its collection features freshwater species, and it specializes in fish, amphibians and reptiles from…
— John Grant
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At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources…
— Daniel Suarez
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There have been over a million wells hydraulically fractured in the history of the industry, and there is not one, not one, reported case of…
— Rex W. Tillerson
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Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater, Chicago and Cambridge,…
— George Gilder
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Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make…
— Sylvia Earle
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Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit…
— Ben Elton
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Ah, Jenks? It’s not a lake, it’s a friggin’ freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the bridge when we…
— Kim Harrison
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Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water…
— Jamais Cascio
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We are wasting our water mostly by putting waste into it. One cubic meter of wastewater can pollute ten cubic meters of water. Discharging wastewater…
— Rose George
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The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.
— Richard Flanagan
Who Wrote These Freshwater Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Freshwater Quotes as follows: