“Then do you mean that I have got to go on catching these damned two-and-a-half pounders at this corner forever and ever? The keeper nodded. Hell! said Mr. Castwell. Yes , said his keeper.” MeanSaidTwoHalfHellForeverSeaGoes OnRiversFishesCornersBoatLakesFishingCatchingKeepers Author:G. E. M. Skues
“During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders” CareersGoneSeaGoes OnRiversFishesBoatLakesFishingGeeseFishermanTroutHang UpsWild Geese Author:John D. Voelker
“The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the day you run out. Then all you have is the recharge flow, which comes from precipitation. This is not decades away, this is years away. We're already seeing huge shortages in China, where the Yellow River runs dry for part of each year. The Yellow River is the cradle of Chinese civilization. It first failed to reach the sea in 1972, and since 1985 it's run dry for part of each year. For 1997 it was dry for 226 days.” YearsFirstsEndsShowsProblemRunningWaterSeeingSeaHugeGoes OnCivilizationFlowRiversEnvironmentalChinaDecadesChineseDryYellowCradleShortage Author:Lester R. Brown
“The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.” WayStatesMomentsTurnsUnitedUnited StatesSeaDyingGoes OnHappeningsRainRiversFishesForestsSoilPoisoningPesticides Author:W. S. Merwin