Quote by Charles C. Mann

“Slaps in the face like this provide opportunities for change. A drought definitely gets people thinking about how they can manage resources better. It’s…

— Judith D. Schwartz

We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Allan Savory has said that floods and droughts are man-made. At first glance this seems a bold, even brazen statement. But here’s what he…

— Judith D. Schwartz

“Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“There’s a great drought in my village. People are dying. The price of rice and pulses has rocketed. There is no water anywhere. And…

— Renita D'Silva

“In a flood the water goes everywhere, you don't have to think about it. In a drought, if you want water, you have to…

— Zadie Smith

“The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy -- for some, strangely or frighteningly easy -- to join the dots…

— Timothy Morton

With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions to a…

— Marc Levine

“The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resources are nearing exhaustion. The environment is deteriorating. Pollution…

— Christian de Duve

Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it…

— Alan Thein Durning

“The river that never run Dry, always have a generous amend to flourish”

— Bobby Vj

The degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater has removed much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.

— Barry Gardiner