Dams Quote by Tim Palmer Download Open image ““Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more.”” — Tim Palmer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dams Environmental history Myths Nature Water
Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life. — Kate Brown Copy Share Image
The number of people who really work creatively on new sources of water isn't enormously large for the reason that I don't think people… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
“Water Source and earthbound substance in endless theme and variation. There is need of rest, renewal and appreciation of the ever-changing landscape. ” — Lynne Hurd Bryant Copy Share Image
The trouble with water-and there is trouble with water-is that they're not making any more of it. They're not making any less, mind, but… — Marq de Villiers Copy Share Image
“Water is a source of life but also a source of conflict, greed, and war.” — Fons Burger Copy Share Image
Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but… — William Ashworth Copy Share Image
“With good land-use management, water scarcity can even be a useful tool for containing the heedless sprawl of human habitation. Unfortunately,” — David Owen Copy Share Image
Understanding the fact that we are essentially water is the key to uncovering the mysteries of the universe... — Masaru Emoto Copy Share Image
Water is the key to dealing with the twin challenges of poverty and growth. — Sunita Narain Copy Share Image
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at… — Richard Bangs 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
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