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“They were relaxing at the top of a waterfall, in a small, still pool where the mountain waters hit an upward slope of folded…

— Ron Parsons

All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi…

— Jonathan Raban

Iv burned to many bridges. My response do you know what people back in the old days did when a bridge burned down, And…

— Melchor Lim

However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.

— Ernest Bramah

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have…

— Annie Proulx

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of…

— Alfred Armand Montapert

“The new dam, of course, will improve things. If ever filled it will back water to within sight of the Bridge, transforming what was…

— Edward Abbey

What need the bridge much broader than the flood?

— William Shakespeare

You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging

— Theodore Levitt

On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade,…

— Ernest Thompson Seton

How deep can you dig the hole before you see the light at the end of the tunnel?

— Anonymous

A railroad may have to be carried over a gorge or arroya. Obviously it does not need an Engineer to point out that this…

— Henry R. Towne