Drought Quotes

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  God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

  John Muir

  Nature, Sea, Tree

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books

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• There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Earthquakes, Sick, Around The World

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• For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Climate, Sake

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst.

  Taylor Swift

  Flower, Together, Worst

  Song: Clean, Album: 1989, 2014

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• As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods and heavy precipitation.

  James Hansen

  Global Warming, Increase, Should

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• The world is a drought when out of love.

  Brandon Boyd

  World

  "Song: 'Sick Sad Little World' ('A Crow Left of the Murder...')". 2004.

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• Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

  Dwight Morrow

  Forgiveness, Party, Rain

  Speech, 10 Oct. 1930

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• We`re in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

  Chris Hayes

  Demand, Action, Historic

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

  Luke Davies

  Hate, Easy, Worst

  Luke Davies (2006). “Candy”, p.17, Allen & Unwin

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• You pout like a trout in a drought...can't get out.
  You want to scream, but fish can't shout.

  MF Grimm

  Rap, Hip Hop, Trout

  Song: King of New York, Album: Scars & Memories

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• Drought never brought dearth.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.267

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• I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us

  Alice Hoffman

  Believe, Fate, Thinking

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• There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Eye, Hands

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• It's a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we're seeing.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Thinking, Weather, New Normal

  "Floods, Droughts Are ‘New Normal’ Of Extreme U.S. Weather Fueled By Climate Change, Scientists Say". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2011.

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• Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.

  Michael McCaul

  Agriculture, Fire, Subsidies

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• We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations

  Barack Obama

  Children, Knowing, Generations

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Spring, Autumn, Doe

  Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.69, Penguin

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• the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.

  Karen Hesse

  Dream, Hard Times, Dust

  Karen Hesse (1997). “Out of the Dust”, p.225, Scholastic Inc.

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• For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

  Ann Druyan

  Storm, Patterns, Spirit

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• We will respond to the threat of climate change

  Barack Obama

  Climate, Threat, Inauguration

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Weed, Fear, Marijuana

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• Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Fire, Impact

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Powerful, Believe

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.

  Prince Charles

  Land, Numbers, Years

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny Friendship, Garden, Years

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