Quotes About Aquifers

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

David Mitchell

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

Paolo Bacigalupi

#6. Maybe that's the thing I'd missed about love, you don't withhold it or partition it out when it's deserved."
#UntilYou

Penelope Douglas

#7. The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

Salvador Dali

#8. If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all.

Nikolay Dobrolyubov

#9. 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

#10. Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is masked from us by our assumption that there is a separation, that there is a problem.

Shunryu Suzuki

#11. 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

#12. We have talked long enough ... about civil rights,' Lyndon Johnson had said. 'It is time ... to write it in the books of law' - to embody justice and equality in legislation.

Robert A. Caro

#13. Such phantom blossoms palely shining
Over the lifeless boughs of Time.

Edgar Lee Masters

#14. Joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

Hoyt Axton

#15. One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

Tana French

#16. And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false, and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mewed up ...

William Shakespeare

#17. Now and then it is okay to get lost to find yourself in a new way.

Debasish Mridha

#18. 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