Dams Quote by Stephen Ambrose Download Open image “Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.” — Stephen Ambrose ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dams Made Recreation Rivers Wildlife
Though dams and artificial lakes can have significant negative environmental impacts, when carefully considered, mitigated, and managed, the benefits of hydropower often outweigh these… — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health… — Ismail Serageldin Copy Share Image
To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of… — Mike Rounds Copy Share Image
Salmon recovery in the Northwest is a complex issue and requires a comprehensive regionwide effort. Dam removal is not the answer. It would have… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today. — Stephen Ambrose 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
