“A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is steady streams that bring thick and needed crops. In the agriculture of the soul that has to do with nurturing attributes, flash floods are no substitute for regular irrigation.” LittlesSoulWaterFlowerNeededSpringStreamsDrySubstitutesAttributesSteadyThickFlashFloodAgricultureCropsNurturingIrrigationFlash Floods Author:Neal A. Maxwell
“When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.” WritingMeanTreeBearsDiseaseFleshMonstersGoldenParadiseApplesFlashFloodEarthquakesVolcanoesRottingBacteriaCactusQuicksandApple TreesScorpionsRattlesnakesDisease And DeathTarantulasSandstormsFlash Floods Author:Edward Abbey
“But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.” DoeSelfBrainPathAwarenessCrossesSelf AwarenessGrassLeapLionsFlashFloodStemIndulgenceFlash Floods Book:Firefall Source: Firefall
“Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.” BookEndsForceNumbersGoneBlameComing OutFlashFloodFlash Floods Author:Dorothy Parker
“The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.” TryingEarthGamesWinningResultsMachinesWaveCheatingFlashFloodTiltEruptionTidal WavesQuakePinballVolcanic EruptionsFlash Floods Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.” TogetherRememberFlashFloodTopsoilFlash Floods Author:Elizabeth Kostova
“Holy smoke! We lost our last match and there's a storm coming! Party On! A flash flood swept away all our gear and we're twenty miles from the trailhead! Party On! My femur bone's sticking through my skin and I've gotta cross that river! Party On!” LastsLostPartyHolySurvivalRiversCrossesSkinsTwentiesBonesStormMilesSmokeFlashFloodGearsSwept AwayStorms ComingFlash Floods Book:98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive Source: 98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive