Buying Quote by Wangari Maathai

We have seen levee breaks and flooding in the wake of storms, some of which have caused the loss of life, and USDA is…

— Sonny Perdue

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have…

— John Breaux

Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even…

— Nina Easton

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again -…

— Billy Tauzin

Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Loss of natural areas threatens our water supply, national security, farms, and health.

— Deb Haaland

The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us…

— Aldo Leopold

Save the stonewall to build the levees.

— Lloyd Doggett

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

— Wendell Berry

Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar…

— Darell Hammond

Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life…

— Joel Miller

If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect…

— Joseph J. Romm