#rivers

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#air pollution #been #coastal #cut #dramatically

We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

#better job #drivers #educating #job #must

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#i love #jumping #love #once #remember

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#build #even #over #politicians #promise

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river. ↗

— Simone Schwarz-Bart

#catch #course #dazzling #down #drown

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low. ↗

— Parris Glendening

#depression #dry #low #our #rivers

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual. ↗

— David Hockney

#does #east #glaciers #hills #just

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#cemeteries #dead #dead people #drivers #driving

Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many. ↗

— Candice S. Miller

#great #great lakes #harbors #lakes #least

Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod? ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#could #dying #fish #rivers #seems