Aquifers Are Quotes

#1. You can't be a revolutionary if you don't eat chilies.

Mao Tse-tung

#2. Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#3. Jesus walked on water, so maybe he makes aquifers, too.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#4. There have been over a million wells hydraulically fractured in the history of the industry, and there is not one, not one, reported case of a freshwater aquifer having ever been contaminated from hydraulic fracturing. Not one.

Rex W. Tillerson

#5. We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.

Winona LaDuke

#6. Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take 10,000 years to recharge, overfishing species in international waters that are close to collapse, and so on.

Ramez Naam

#7. Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#8. The effect of climate change is not simply to reduce rain during the summer months, but also to increase the number of torrential storms. When the rain falls that hard and fast, it cannot sink into the ground and go down to the aquifers.

Nick Davies

#9. What people don't understand is like when water gets polluted, it's an entire aquifer. There's a whole fascinating world that exists underneath our feet that we don't see, therefore we don't relate.

Erin Brockovich

#10. The aquifer [is] the water table people need to keep secure. Nature has this incredible system of water purification under the ground. Ground water is much better to drink than surface water because it filters out the bacteria that can cause all sorts of problems.

Josh Fox

#11. Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

Umberto Eco

#12. There is no significance in life without struggle

Lolly Daskal

#13. What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character?

David Mitchell