John Green Quotes

Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.

Droughts come and go, but this one is so extreme that it will doubtless affect the discussion of climate change.

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

If you cut down the forest, you know what happens: The whole of Asia turns into a desert. Without water, you're talking civil unrest, war, mud slides - the whole bloody lot.

People are prejudiced but water isn’t. The Katrina flood went everywhere.

Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

Climate change poses tremendous threat to water resources, as there is inconsistency in the rains.

Unlike other essential goods, like clothing, shelter, or food, we take cheap or even free water for granted. It often takes a crisis, such as a major drought or flood, to spur investment and policy reforms in improving water security.

The direct risks from climate change are obvious: as changing weather patterns cause extremes of flood and drought, hurricanes and typhoons. These damage the physical infrastructure of buildings and bridges roads and railways. They are violent and disruptive.

No matter the natural disaster I've covered, whether it's a wildfire or flood, I always come back with a much greater perspective.

Some of us don't respect water. We waste it and pour it out. But a lot of disastrous stuff involves water. Tsunamis. Hurricanes.

Orissa is cursed by the two tragic extremes of drought and famine.

Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier

Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes. Flooding, storms, droughts are all getting people talking about climate change. I wonder if someday Atlanta will run out of water?

Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I don't see why I won't be wrong in some people's eyes when I go set a story on foreign shores.

Syria is on the back end of basically a decade-long drought. Over the last decade, farmers and herders have been ravaged in Syria forcing them to give up and move to urban areas. This has put a huge strain on urban resources, and it's surely one of the reasons for the uprising there.

In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.

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.

When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse

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.

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

May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.