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Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation. -- Stephen Ambrose
The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. -- Ron Kind
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away. -- Arthur Golden
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. -- Bertrand Russell
Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many. -- Arundhati Roy
Human civilization has been changing the Earth's 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. -- Jamais Cascio
All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly. -- Edward Abbey
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. -- Henry Ford
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. -- Jamais Cascio
The eagle may soar; beavers build dams. -- Bill Vaughan
We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky. -- E. T. A. Hoffmann
For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project. -- Leonard Boswell
In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic. -- Arundhati Roy
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I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams. -- David R. Brower
If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States. -- Ayn Rand
In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today. -- Evan Osnos
The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek. -- Ezra Cornell
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. -- Kofi Annan
The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words. -- Will Rogers
There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special. -- Valerie Jarrett
Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents. -- Wendell Berry
We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports. -- Jerry Costello
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land. -- Billy Sunday
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious. -- Jacques Maritain
One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man. -- John Muir
I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats. -- Sherman Alexie
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. -- John Constable
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. -- Marc Levine
Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people. The goal is material, cultural and spiritual fulfilment for the people. The human factor is of supreme value in development. -- Rajiv Gandhi
We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace. -- David Sobel

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