Sandra Postel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.
-- Sandra Postel

#Jobs #Past #Water
Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.
-- Sandra Postel

#Marine #Blue #Water
For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.
-- Sandra Postel

#Thinking #Rivers #Water
We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it... In short, we need a water ethic-a guide to right conduct in the face of complex decisions about natural systems we do not and cannot fully understand.
-- Sandra Postel

#Rights #Water #Decision
Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.
-- Sandra Postel

#Humanity #Earth #Given
Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a supply-side management philosophy no longer appropriate to solving today's water problems.
-- Sandra Postel

#Philosophy #Government #Engineering
Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage call for a shift in the way water is valued, used and managed.
-- Sandra Postel

#Science #Water #Cost

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
The experience youâ€™ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.
Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.
Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act...
Waterâ€™s water and thatâ€™s why itâ€™s beautiful.
That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Sandra Postel famous quotes

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