Wetlands Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
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The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs…
— Paul Brown
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Im a strong proponent of the restoration of the wetlands, for a lot of reasons. Theres a practical reason, though, when it comes to hurricanes:…
— George W. Bush
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For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a…
— Sandra Postel
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A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes…
— Elizabeth Cunningham
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Tundra is a huge, forever frozen wetland covering the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean.
— Palmer Cox
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Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was…
— Richard Darman
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He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation.…
— Lisa Ling
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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
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Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to…
— Mortimer Zuckerman
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Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to…
— David Suzuki
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We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and…
— Johan Rockstrom
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I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize…
— John Breaux
Who Wrote These Wetlands Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 12 Wetlands Quotes as follows: