Dams Quote by Patrick McCully Download Open image ““A dam tears at all the interconnected webs of river valley life.”” — Patrick McCully ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dams Ecology Environmental history Internet Life Rivers Water
“In the Valley of healing dreams; beyond human imagination - there was a long quiet river.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“I once watched a natural dam break on television. I remember seeing a scenic picture of a river surrounded by trees. All of the… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“There are many rivers that we cross in our lifetime, unfortunately some of those rivers just don't have bridges.” — John R. Gouin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Free shackled rivers!...The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the Colorado [River]. — David Foreman Copy Share Image
“Dams are built with the intent of a 100-year lifetime — just long enough for societies to become completely dependent on them” — Daniel Lenihan Copy Share Image
“Rivers have what man most respects and longs for in his own life and thought-a capacity for renewal and replenishment, continual energy, creativity,cleansing. J.M.… — Henry C. Duggan III Copy Share Image
“Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.” — Emma Smith Copy Share Image
“ Foggy little oxbows Forest pools where no one goes Lost links of the river dreaming dreams ” — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
“Life is like a flowing river where every ripple impacts in the waves.” — Leonard Ondigo Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech.... A million voters with IQs below 60 have their ears… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate. — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
