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“Who scouts through wilderness and cold And finds the stone that turns to gold, The gems of Nature's wealth untold-- The Engineer. Who gets five paltry plunks per day To give the thing he finds away To some one else who makes it pay-- The Engineer. Who's heart is always in the game, When trouble comes it's just the same, But when it comes, who gets the blame? The Engineer. - Robert Elmer Horton (Water Power and Water Supply Preliminaries, 1913, Michigan Engineer)”

Engineering Engineer Water Power Water Supply Hydrology

Author:Robert Elmer Horton

“It was the water that protected me. It's the water that makes us strong.”

Mermaid Water Power

Book:The Sirens

Source: The Sirens

“[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant future. ... Oil is too insignificant in its available supply to come into much consideration.”

“We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise, American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power, our oil areas and our timber limits.”

Water Mines Limits Areas Army South Possession Oil Borders Enterprise Rapids Invasion Timber Water Power

Book:The Imperialist

Source: The Imperialist

“Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.”

Men Remember Water Quality Objects He Man Lovers Taste Property Determine Substance Memorable Streams Native One Man Impress Susceptibility Rendezvous Acquired Taste Water Power

Author:George Henry Lewes

“Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.”

Mean Water Conditions Tears Weapons Slavery Cooperation Complaints Disturbing Reducing Water Power

Author:Alfred Adler

“To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.”

Men Water Lovers Streams One Man Rendezvous Acquired Taste Water Power

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.”

Source: The Art Spirit

“There should be intensive research of all forms of clean energy - sun power, wind power, water power including wave power. In some places thermal energy is available. I stayed on a ranch which, with solar panels and two windmills, provided its own energy.”

Should Two Form Energy Water Sun Wind Research Clean Including Wave Available Clean Energy Windmills Solar Panels Wind Power Thermal Water Power

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition town' movement. There are three hundred towns in Britain that are making this transition. Taking energy from solar power, from wind power, from water power.”

People Moving Three Energy Water Economy Movement Wind Hundred Towns Fuel Britain Transition Fossils Fossil Fuel Moving Away Solar Power Wind Power Water Power

Author:Satish Kumar

“The fortunate and successful New Urbanists will be the ones who can find local infill projects in small towns and small cities associated with farming, water transport, (perhaps rail too) and water power. I do not believe personally that we will retrofit much of suburbia in the way many people wish we might. The capital won't be there, and I'm rather convinced that the population is headed down - though this will be a lagging effect, because even starving people have sex.”

People Way Believe Might Wish Sex Water Cities Successful Effects Projects Towns Population Convinced Locals Fortunate Small Town Farming Starving Transport Rail Suburbia Water Power

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.”

World Water Tears Efficient Water Power

Author:Wilson Mizner

“Water is the driving force of all nature.”

Reality Force Water Nature Driving Natural Environment Driving Force Forces Of Nature Water Resources Beauty Of The Earth Water Power

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.”

“The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink and breathe and walk and therefore each man has a right to his share of each.”

“Heat energy of uniform temperature [is] the ultimate fate of all energy. The power of sunlight and coal, electric power, water power, winds and tides do the work of the world, and in the end all unite to hasten the merry molecular dance.”

World Ends Science Energy Water Power Fate Wind Hard Work Ultimate Heat Tides Electric Sunlight Uniforms Coal Temperature Merry Water Power Electric Power

Book:Matter and energy

Source: Matter and energy

“Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.”

Water Power Land Rain Rivers Ancient Fusion Drinking Water Drink Water Water Resources Rivers And Water Irrigation Water Fountain Land And Water Rain Water Water Power

Author:Mike McAlary

“I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.”

“In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But in so far as they consume the fuel resources of the globe they are very different. The one is like spending the interest on a legacy, and the other is like spending the legacy itself. ... [There is] a still hardly recognised coming energy problem.”