American history Quote by Tim Palmer

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

— Daniel Lenihan

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

— Patrick McCully

“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

“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

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

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

“I hate when people say primitive people didn’t even have running water. What do they call rivers?”

— Jarod Kintz

“Mighty rivers may easily be leaped at their source”

— Publilius Syrus

“The river was the Hudson. There were carp in there and we saw them. They were as big as atomic submarines. We saw waterfalls,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“A river is only as strong as the tributaries that feed it.”

— Timothy Bax

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

— Heidi Cullen

“Mighty rivers might be easily leaped at their source”

— Publius Syrus