Natural Disaster Quotes

• We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Fire, Next, Natural

  "Malcolm Turnbull meets bushfire volunteers as Esperance community comes to terms with its loss". Interview with Lucy Martin, www.abc.net.au. December 9, 2015.

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• Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Bad Ass, Modern Life

  "What's The Next Big Thing?". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil deGrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. February 23, 2011.

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• We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

  Petra Nemcova

  Arms, Enough, Natural

  "How supermodel Petra Nemcova's tragedy changed children's lives" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Recovery, Long, Attention

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• Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

  Daryn Kagan

  War, People, Ordinary

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• You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

  R. L. Stine

  Scary, Feelings, Natural

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

  Jim Wallis

  Sometimes, Natural, Social

  "What the Waters Have Revealed" by Jim Wallis, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2005.

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• The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

  Neal Barnard

  War, Native American, Animal

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• In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But then major sort of problems actually they're due to a lack of moral principle.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Mind, Principles

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Comforting, Might

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.281, Open Road Media

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• History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

  Sarah Vowell

  War, Murder, Natural

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Real, Men

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

  Karen DeCrow

  Art, Pain, War

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• In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.

  Joan Didion

  Loss, Absence, Natural

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.89, Zola Books

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• The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.

  Larry Fessenden

  Fate, Way, Natural

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• Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

  Leon Panetta

  Sea, Relief, Rising

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• In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

  Nathaniel Philbrick

  Men, Tragedy, Events

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• My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Book, Heart, Tragedy

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• This visit is meant to express my closeness to our brothers and sisters who endured the suffering, loss and devastation caused by Typhoon Yolanda.  Together with many people throughout the world, I have admired the heroic strength, faith and resilience demonstrated by so many Filipinos in the face of this natural disaster, and so many others.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Loss, People

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• Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?

  Russ Carnahan

  Government, Earthquakes, Way

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• I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

  Chelsea Clinton

  War, People, Lost Everything

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• War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

  Kate Adie

  War, Risk, Natural

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• The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

  Godfried Danneels

  College, June, Boston

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• He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Party, Political, Reform

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• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

  Warren Rudman

  People, Sound, May

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