Irrigation Quotes

32 quotes by 29 authors

Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain. — Unknown Author
My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services play in underpinning… — Frances Ford Seymour
In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional… — Lester R. Brown
Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a… — Lester R. Brown
I like colonic irrigation because sometimes you find old jewelry. — Joan Rivers
Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan. — Ilya Ilf
My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre… — Ana Mendieta
It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation… — William Sloane Coffin
Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less… — Jim Costa
It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the… — Julia Cameron
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've never experienced the… — Norman Borlaug
More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and… — Ismail Serageldin
Just as irrigation is the lifeblood of the Southwest, lifeblood is the soup of cannibals. — Jack Handey
Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods.… — Mahathir Mohamad
We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into… — Saint Augustine
Irrigation, unscientifically conducted, would not give us such truly wonderful mathematical fitness [as we observe in the Martian canals]. . . . A mind of… — Percival Lowell
It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to… — Lester R. Brown
The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a… — David Suzuki
I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away… — Jimmy Dean
Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet. — Debbie Stabenow

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