I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.
Quotes about canals (16 Quotes)
Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong shade of oxblood that is known as Bruges red.
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.
From thy entrails, canals, rectum, and abdomen from thy belly, guts, and navel I do tear out the disease.
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
Initially, I thought this is an abhorrent violence being foisted upon these great, still, abstract performances. And quite the opposite is apparent in the photographs - it's almost like looking at photographs of the canals of Mars or something. This tremendous inner softness emerges as the works are exposed.
Apparently we have what we call nutria or pest type animals that burrow into the sides of these canals which undermines the strength of the canal. The canal broke early this morning discharging a discernable about of water.
You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.
I know people want to dump the blame on the corps, and that's fine with us, but there were a lot of design features we wanted on those canals that were ultimately accepted by sponsors.
You can use irrigation to explain both the rise and fall of the Norte Chico region. By 1,800 B. C., when this civilization is in decline, we begin to find extensive canals farther north. People were moving to more fertile ground and taking their knowledge of irrigation with them. The Norte Chico ultimately became something of a frontier zone between northern and southern centers of influence and political development.
The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates, the so-called cradle of civilization, where plants were first grown for crops by settled communities, garden enclosures were also constructed. Gardens emphasized the contrast between two separate worlds the outer one where nature remained awe-inspiringly in control and an inner artificially created sanctuary, a refuge for man and plants from the burning desert, where shade trees and cool canals refreshed the spirit and ensured growth.