Prchal Taylor Quotes & Sayings

When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years. — Hal Borland

If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of others, but on the contrary endeavoring, so far as he might be able, to forward their views and promote their happiness, all would be active and harmonious in the goodly frame of human society. — William Wilberforce

Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move. — Miranda July

I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried. — Athol Fugard

But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse. — China Mieville

I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes. — Richard Flanagan

mama taught me waste not want not. i try not to waste but i'll be damned if i don't want. — Amy Leigh Cutler

Whatever a person's ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else the person does or believes. — Ronald H. Nash

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect. — Meister Eckhart