Irrigation Quotes

Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.

Debbie Stabenow

Gps, Agriculture, Different

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Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.

Jim Costa

Smart, Technology, Practice

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Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful.

Al Gore

Powerful, Civilization, Water

Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.111, Routledge

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I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.

Jimmy Dean

Texas, Yesterday, Sixteen

"Jimmy Dean: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2010.

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Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.

Mike McAlary

Rain, Power, Land

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The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.

J. Arthur Thomson

Country, Men, Honor

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It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.

William Sloane Coffin

Work Out, Justice, Water

William Sloane Coffin “A Passion for the Possible”, Westminster John Knox Press

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A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is steady streams that bring thick and needed crops. In the agriculture of the soul that has to do with nurturing attributes, flash floods are no substitute for regular irrigation.

Neal A. Maxwell

Spring, Flower, Agriculture

"Notwithstanding My Weakness". Book by Neal A. Maxwell, pg. 7, 1981.

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We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

Saint Augustine

Faith, Wine, Water

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The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.

David Suzuki

Mother, Nature, Opportunity

"Why land rights for indigenous peoples could be the answer to climate change" by Bruce Parry, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2016.

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Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth.

Mahathir Mohamad

Ignorance, Knowledge, Law

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All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

John Cleese

Wine, Order, Medicine

"Fictional character: Reg". "Life of Brian", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan.

Ilya Ilf

Uzbekistan, Popular Education, Drank

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On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.'

Ben Affleck

Way, Lost, Feels

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Some of the environmental lobbyists of the western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they would be crying out for tractors, and fertilizer, and irrigation canals, and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things.

Norman Borlaug

Home, Years, Office

Interview with Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1997.

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Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

Thomas Harris

Writing, Digging, Done

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It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance. It is a little like opening the gate at the top of a field irrigation system. Once we remove the blocks, the flow moves in.

Julia Cameron

Teacher, Block, Moving

Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.17, Souvenir Press

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I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands of monopolies, which by such means may exercise lordship over the areas dependent on their treatment for productiveness.

Grover Cleveland

Fall, Mean, Exercise

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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

Running, California, Rivers

Source: www.abc.net.au

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Irrigation, unscientifically conducted, would not give us such truly wonderful mathematical fitness [as we observe in the Martian canals]. . . . A mind of no mean order would seem to have presided over the system we see-a mind certainly of considerably more comprehensiveness than that which presides over the various department of our own public works.

Percival Lowell

Mean, Order, Giving

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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

Imtiaz Ali

Jobs, Father, Taste

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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional level. For the first time in history, grain production is dropping in a geographic region with nothing in sight to arrest the decline. Each day now brings 10,000 more people to feed and less irrigation water with which to feed them.

Lester R. Brown

Sight, People, Water

"This will be the Arab world's next battle" by Lester R. Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a far more serious issue. Excessive pumping for irrigation to satisfy food needs today almost guarantees a decline in food production tomorrow.

Lester R. Brown

Oil, Issues, Water

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I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.

Sheri L. Dew

Law, Knowing, Harvest

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My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services play in underpinning sustainable agricultural production. Forests regulate hydrological services including the quantity, quality, and timing of water available for irrigation. Forest-based bats and bees pollinate crops. Forests mitigate impacts of climate change and extreme weather events at the landscape scale.

Frances Ford Seymour

Science, Impact, Ecosystems

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