Year Life Quote by Daniel Lenihan

“Dams also tend to be built in remote areas which are the last refuge for species that have been displaced by development in other…

— Patrick McCully

“950 years. After the flood, the lifespan”

— Craig Hines

From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of…

— Arundhati Roy

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

— Arthur Golden

“In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.”

— Tim Palmer

“A dam is monumentally static; it tries to bring a river under control, to regulate its seasonal pattern of floods and low flow.”

— Patrick McCully

“A dam tears at all the interconnected webs of river valley life.”

— Patrick McCully

“It’s better to build dams than to wait for the flood to come to its senses. —Mark Twain”

— Heidi Cullen

The idea of the damsel in distress is fast becoming obsolete.

— Nicholas Galitzine

“A great tide of civilization governs how humans do things. When that tide goes out, we centralize, establish command and control structures, and attempt…

— Max Guernsey III

“In all, by the end of the twentieth century mankind had built some 45,000 large dams; during the global peak of dam building in…

— Steven Solomon