Mao Zedong Quotes

If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story.

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

I used to live in Canada. It's a beautiful country with a lot of different kind of topographic regions.

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.

The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world.

Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.

But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.

Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.

The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.

The simple model of a bridge is great, and you could not build a bridge without understanding it well. But if you're actually building the bridge, you need to know the site. A lot of economics is like that: When prices go up, demand is gonna go down. You can't forget that and run your economy. But it's not the only thing you need to know.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.

In many cases, the politicians who decided to construct a dam many years ago made mistakes. The problems a dam was built to solve sometime don't materialize or are resolved in other ways. A dam might be poorly designed or improperly constructed. For whatever reason, mistakes are made. In other instances, dams out-live their usefulness. We all make mistakes, and we all understand that an object can become obsolete. Times and conditions change.

What most people don't realize is that dams and other structures are not permanent fixtures on the landscape. They are there because we made a political decision to build them. They didn't get there by accident.

It takes time to build roads. You can't just wave a magic wand.

… a people occupied as we are in opening rivers, digging navigable canals, making roads

Okay, Frank, next time you need a dam in Idaho, ask Walter Lippmann for one.

An engineer can form a more handsome waterfall than any to be found in nature.