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Quotes About Imperilment

Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
~ Quentin Bryce
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
~ Ida B. Wells
The more naive your life the more frightening your dreams. Your unconscious will keep trying to wake you. In every sense. Imperilment is bottomless. As long as you are breathing you can always be more scared.
~ Cormac McCarthy