“When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.” IfsThinkingYearsHas BeensRunningWaterFeetConditionsSolutionsFlowRiversUltimateDeeperWoodsHillsStreamsExcessFloodDrainsSwampsSpongesProblems And SolutionsSolution To A ProblemDams Author:Hal Borland
“The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.” MadeSoundWaterSceneGratefulPainterPostsEtcRottenEscapingMillsI Am GratefulDamsSound Of Water Author:John Constable
“England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.” WellsMayWaterFreedomStepsLandProudMountainEnglandFirmMagnificentScotlandCouchesSwitzerlandDamsFettersNile Author:Lydia M. Child
“But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom's haunts among "sheep cotes and mills." As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight.” LongSoundWaterPoorPaintDelightCeasePostsSheepTomsRottenEscapingMillsDamsSound Of Water Author:John Constable
“Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.” WaterBehindsDestructionCautionRecklessTranquilDamsUncontrollable Book:Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward Source: Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward
“And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.” ThinkingKnowsHas BeensImportantHelpingWaterKnow HowGoneAdversityDams Author:Annie Proulx
“Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.” HumansHas BeensEarthWaterEnvironmentWindCivilizationCreatingPatternsDesertCyclesDroughtDamsDeforestationHuman CivilizationUrbanization Author:Jamais Cascio
“With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions to a drought that seemingly has no end.” EndsRunningWaterRecordsPoliticianSolutionsLowsRiversCaliforniaDryDesperateReachingDroughtStorageDamsIrrigation Author:Marc Levine
“In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt.” IfsBelieveAgeActionMovingWaterMemoriesLove IsFlowCurrentsCornersSmellSeparationOld AgeBurningSandLeafsSighFossilsHauntingBakingVerbsNuanceNounsTrue Love IsDamsTransienceAsphalt Author:Alyson Richman
“Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they’ll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it.” PeopleWantMovingWaterEnviedDamsSkateboarder Author:Mark Gonzales