Animals Quote by Patrick McCully

“Dams are built with the intent of a 100-year lifetime — just long enough for societies to become completely dependent on them”

— Daniel Lenihan

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

— Stephen Ambrose

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

We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We're here in the rain forest, and we have plenty…

— Eduardo Bhatia

“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

In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're…

— Arundhati Roy

“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

Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol…

— Arundhati Roy

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

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

— Patrick McCully

“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

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

— Heidi Cullen