Challenges Quote by Mikie Sherrill

“It's hard to think of the divide where I grew up as a watershed. The creeks are dry most of the year, rainfall is…

— Faith A. Colburn

In my district, I know we have thousands of little creeks and streams, some of which only fill up when it rains. Nationwide, they're…

— Hal Rogers

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

— Stephen Ambrose

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

— Hal Borland

“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

For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost…

— Sandra Postel

But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon…

— Mark Twain

Typically, settlements, habitations, roads and major trails are in river valleys and on bodies of water. If you are lost, your best bet is…

— Steven Rinella

Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

— Paul Hawken

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote…

— Ansel Adams

Loss of natural areas threatens our water supply, national security, farms, and health.

— Deb Haaland

In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one.

— Yosa Buson