Quotes About Reclamation

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.

There is no such thing as waste. It is just a question of whether we know how to use something or not.

T]here is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

When a farm or a family is stricken, nature destroys what humankind has made. Houses peel and crumble. Tilled fields are subsumed by weeds and grasses. Well-tended orchards become knotted, spectral forests. The earth, given an opening, always reclaims itself and obliterates order—erasing the outward evidence of an agrarian society.

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

Africa is the most weathered continent in the world; 75 percent of its soil has been degraded. You don't just bring that back. I always like to say it's like putting an oxygen mask on a cadaver; it just isn't going to work.

It does. This is how it should have been anyway.' I caught my breath as he kissed my neck, teeth grating my skin. 'And I'll take back what's mine.

Con quale velocità, pensò l'ingegnere, la natura si riprende ciò che ha dovuto cedere: pioggia e gelo sbriciolano la muratura, le strade sono sepolte da strati verdi di erbaccia, gli acquedotti sono ostruiti dalla stessa acqua per portare la quale sono stati costruiti. Quella della civiltà è un'incessante guerra che l'uomo è destinato a perdere.

I am al'Lan Mandragoran," Lan bellowed. "Lord of the Seven Towers, Defender of the Wall of First Fires, Bearer of the Sword of the Thousand Lakes! I was once named Aan'allein, but I reject that title, for I am alone no more. Fear me, Shadow! Fear me and know. I have returned for what is mine. I may be a king without a land. But I am still a king!

He inhabits now that part of himself Which lay formerly desolate and uncolonised. - Mark of Patmos

They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

We can go everywhere. -No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore. -It's ours. -No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.

Work for peace. Think before you say something. Are you making things better or just taking out your trash. The point is growth. Constant process of reclamation. Clearing out the deadwood and making room for things to grow.

Que yo y otras muchas mujeres vayamos buscando heroínas de cuento de hadas en los libros es otra versión del mismo proceso: deseo validar mi reivindicación a poseer una parte equitativa del futuro, y expreso para ello la exigencia de que me concedan la parte del pasado que me corresponde.

Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family.

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

were fighting grimly, and at huge cost, to reclaim the ground lost at the beginning of the war. The fierce battle over a little town called Saint-Lô, in

I want to cry but I don't. I don't. There are pieces of yourself, so many pieces of yourself, that, once you give away, you cannot get back again.

We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves

in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.

She wanted everything back, as we do sometimes in our irrationality and regret; we want it all back.