Marshes Quotes

While the re-flooding bodes well for the Iraqi marshes, their recovery will take many years... We must continue to monitor the situation carefully and make the necessary long-term investment in marshlands management. - Klaus Toepfer

Where we had subdivisions in the marshes, they will not come back. I can't believe they're sustainable. - Shea Penland

We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. - Henry David Thoreau

There is interest in Kuwait and Iran regarding cooperation on the issue of restoration, as the dried marshes adversely affects all three of those countries and others on the [Persian] Gulf. Turkey and Syria need to also be engaged to help in the management of the water resources of the entire basin. - Azzam Alwash

The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire. - Charles Dickens

The marshes could have looked like a network of private roadways. - Nancy Vinson

Sixty percent of the fish consumed in Iraq in 1990 was from the marshes. - Azzam Alwash

I'm confident enough to overcome anything and carry on. There's always pressure taking penalties, whether it's on the Hackney Marshes (in London) or in the World Cup final, ... I'll put myself up again and take another one. - David Beckham

I was held for ten days in the marshes of southern Iraq in a Shiite area. - Micah Garen