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  • The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

    Water   Tears   World  
  • We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise, American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power, our oil areas and our timber limits.

    Army   Oil   Water  
    Sara Jeannette Duncan (2010). “The Imperialist”, p.306, New Canadian Library
  • I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

    Rain   Moving   Memorable  
  • Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

    Memorable   Men   Water  
    "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.
  • There should be intensive research of all forms of clean energy - sun power, wind power, water power including wave power. In some places thermal energy is available. I stayed on a ranch which, with solar panels and two windmills, provided its own energy.

    Wind   Two   Water  
    Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.154, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
  • Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

    Beach   Ocean   Thinking  
    Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
  • Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.

  • Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.

    Mean   Water   Tears  
  • Water is the driving force of all nature.

    Nature   Reality   Water  
  • To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

    George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”
  • People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition town' movement. There are three hundred towns in Britain that are making this transition. Taking energy from solar power, from wind power, from water power.

    Moving   Wind   People  
    "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.
  • In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But in so far as they consume the fuel resources of the globe they are very different. The one is like spending the interest on a legacy, and the other is like spending the legacy itself. ... [There is] a still hardly recognised coming energy problem.

  • [I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant future. ... Oil is too insignificant in its available supply to come into much consideration.

  • The fortunate and successful New Urbanists will be the ones who can find local infill projects in small towns and small cities associated with farming, water transport, (perhaps rail too) and water power. I do not believe personally that we will retrofit much of suburbia in the way many people wish we might. The capital won't be there, and I'm rather convinced that the population is headed down - though this will be a lagging effect, because even starving people have sex.

    Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.
  • The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink and breathe and walk and therefore each man has a right to his share of each.

    Men   Air   Free Gifts  
  • Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.

    Rain   Power   Land  
  • Heat energy of uniform temperature [is] the ultimate fate of all energy. The power of sunlight and coal, electric power, water power, winds and tides do the work of the world, and in the end all unite to hasten the merry molecular dance.

    Frederick Soddy (1912). “Matter and energy”
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