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Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will… — Nicholas Stern
Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine. — James Balog
...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own… — Pat Conroy
Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a… — Don Young
Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains… — Hudson Stuck
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by. — Mark Twain
The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can… — William O. Douglas
The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface… — Louis Agassiz
There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that… — Chris Bonington
If the world was an etch-a-sketch, glaciers are the big shake. — Joe Rogan
Glacier Gray is an unobtrusive gray that contrasts and enhances; bouncing off other shades without taking away from them as it slips into the background… — Leatrice Eiseman
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through… — Edward Gorey
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts… — John Muir
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a… — John Muir
The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light. — John Muir
Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all… — John Muir
Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time.… — Freeman Dyson
East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers,… — David Hockney
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. — Barbara Kingsolver
The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted… — Bill Kurtis
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its… — Orison Swett Marden
But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for… — Frances Perkins
Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it,… — Martin Sheen
He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that… — HalldÃ³r Laxness

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