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.

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

Jacques Maritain

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Franz Schubert

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Leon Trotsky

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

Elbert Hubbard

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Margaret Drabble

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

Andrew Young

Cynicism is the humor of hatred.

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Oscar Wilde

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

James Clerk Maxwell

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Peace Pilgrim

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Mahatma Gandhi