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“The physical reclamation of the floodplain of the Spey involved a hugely ambitious series of localised engineering projects, surely equal to any undertaking in lowland Britain - perhaps more so considering the region's remoteness and economic difficulties. ...Around 40 miles of banks were constructed over five decades, reclaiming some 4,000 acres of the most fertile land in Badenoch, dramatically increasing the region's pastoral and arable yields to the benefit of all. Many of these floodbanks still protect the riverside fields, a monument not just to the ideology of Enlightenment and improvement, but to the vision and labour of all involved - lairds, tacksmen, tenants and labourers. Ironically, the huge Invereshie reclamation scheme, the great drain and riverbanks, are now - in response to a new ideological vision being re-converted into wetlands, the Invereshie Meadows reverting to the Insh Marshes.”

Rewilding Wetlands Drainage Badenoch Agricultural Improvement Floodplain Insh Marshes Invereshie Land Reclamation River Spey

Book:'The People Are Not There': The Transformation of Badenoch 1800 - 1863

Source: 'The People Are Not There': The Transformation of Badenoch 1800 - 1863

“In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.”

Two Real Country Enemy One Day Farms Drainage

Book:For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings

Source: For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings

“For over a half century now I've watched office obesity develop into a full-blown, crippling disease. As our office clutter mounts, we're ever more intimidated and frustrated by it. We engineer drainage and removal of water and liquid wastes from society to prevent hazardous buildup, but the effluent that pours into our offices-paper-is never flushed out.”

Water Half Century Office Disease Waste Paper Engineers Frustrated Liquid Obesity Intimidated Clutter Removal Drainage

Book:The Office Clutter Cure

Source: The Office Clutter Cure

“Isn't that someone we know?" asked Horace. He pointed to where a cloaked figure sat by the side of the road a few hundred meters away, arms wrapped around his knees. Close by him, a small shaggy horse cropped the grass growing at the edge of the drainage ditch that ran beside the road. "So it is," Halt replied. "And he seems to have brought Will with him.”

Knows Seems Sides Growing Figures Arms Hundred Horse Edges Grass Knees Ran Sat Halt Meter Grass Growing Drainage

Author:John Flanagan

“I don't have that many days left," he said as we sat together in the library. "Why would I want to spend them on matters of drainage and overdue accounts? I must husband my hours and spend every one of them wisely. I regret that I didn't come to this realization until I reached fifty years of age. Calpurnia, you would do well to adopt such an attitude at an earlier age. Spend each of your allotted hours with care.”

Want Years Wells Said Matter Care Age Together Left Hours Attitude Regret Husband Accounts Library Realization Sat Fifty I Regret Overdue Drainage Calpurnia

Author:Jacqueline Kelly

“The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.”

Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)

“Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.”

Mean Use Water Lines Building Development Projects Operations Highways Greece Automobile Railroads Peru Drainage

Author:Walter Chrysler

“I am no saviour. I’m absolutely the last person on the planet who can practically help. I don’t know how to make the different types of therapeutic feeding milk. I’m no chemist. I’m no doctor. I’m no engineer. I can’t manufacture polio vaccines or organise their transportation to the health centres in Saramoussayah or Bissikirima. I can’t build schools, or design drainage systems. I can’t provide the women and children of Mandiana with water.All I can do now is help make people aware of what is happening, of what they are doing. That is all that I can do. For now.”

“By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Nations Water Streets Ought Rain Finished Coffee Britain Volume Drains Puddles Drainage

Book:Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain

Source: Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain

“I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.”

Looks Littles Boys Picks Fishes Enjoyed Farms Agriculture Typical Cotton Drainage Crawfish

Author:Sam Donaldson

“I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.”

Humans Doe Done Activity Taxi Human Activity Drainage

Author:Alan Brien

“In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.”

Giving Years Looks Dream Heaven Poverty Saws Week Cold Thousand Salvation Misery Hunger Positive Atheism Bread Thirty Twelve Shelter Rebellious Benefactors Drainage Treacle

Book:Major Barbara

Source: Major Barbara

“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 prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.”

Two States Problem United Accepting United States Needed Thirds Flood Coast Louisiana Levees Drainage

Author:John Breaux