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Top 8 Marc Reisner Quotes (2025 Update)

Marc Reisner Quote: “Water flows uphill towards money.”

1. “Water flows uphill towards money.”

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Marc Reisner Quote: “I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn’t spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.”

2. “I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn’t spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.”

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Marc Reisner Quote: “In the West, it is said, water flows uphill toward money. And it literally does, as it leaps three thousand feet across the Tehachapi Mountains in gigantic siphons to slake the thirst of Los Angeles, as it is shoved a thousand feet out of Colorado River canyons to water Phoenix and Palm Springs and the irrigated lands around them.”

3. “In the West, it is said, water flows uphill toward money. And it literally does, as it leaps three thousand feet across the Tehachapi Mountains in gigantic siphons to slake the thirst of Los Angeles, as it is shoved a thousand feet out of Colorado River canyons to water Phoenix and Palm Springs and the irrigated lands around them.”

— Marc Reisner

Marc Reisner Quote: “Reason is the first casualty in a drought.”

4. “Reason is the first casualty in a drought.”

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Marc Reisner Quote: “Great American Desert appeared to have retreated westward across the Rockies to the threshold of the Great Basin. Such a spectacular climatic transformation was not about to be dismissed as a fluke, not by a people who thought themselves handpicked by God to occupy a wild continent. A new school of meteorology was founded to explain it. Its unspoken principle was divine intervention, and its motto was “Rain Follows the Plow.”

5. “Great American Desert appeared to have retreated westward across the Rockies to the threshold of the Great Basin. Such a spectacular climatic transformation was not about to be dismissed as a fluke, not by a people who thought themselves handpicked by God to occupy a wild continent. A new school of meteorology was founded to explain it. Its unspoken principle was divine intervention, and its motto was “Rain Follows the Plow.”

— Marc Reisner

Marc Reisner Quote: “In 1904, the newly created Los Angeles Department of Water and Power issued its first public report. ‘The time has come,’ it said, ‘when we shall have to supplement the supply from another source.’ With that simple statement, William Mulholland was about to become a modern Moses. But instead of leading his people to the promised land, he would cleave the desert and lead the promised waters to them.”

6. “In 1904, the newly created Los Angeles Department of Water and Power issued its first public report. ‘The time has come,’ it said, ‘when we shall have to supplement the supply from another source.’ With that simple statement, William Mulholland was about to become a modern Moses. But instead of leading his people to the promised land, he would cleave the desert and lead the promised waters to them.”

— Marc Reisner

Marc Reisner Quote: “Ours was the first and will doubtless be the last party of whites to visit this profitless locale. – Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives, on sailing up the Colorado River to a point near the present location of Las Vegas, in 1857.”

7. “Ours was the first and will doubtless be the last party of whites to visit this profitless locale. – Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives, on sailing up the Colorado River to a point near the present location of Las Vegas, in 1857.”

— Marc Reisner

Marc Reisner Quote: “By erecting thirty thousand dams of significant size across the American West, they dewatered countless rivers, wiped out millions of acres of riparian habitat, shut off many thousands of river miles of salmon habitat, silted over spawning beds, poisoned return flows with agricultural chemicals, set the plague of livestock loose on the arid land – in a nutshell they made it close to impossible for numerous native species to survive.”

8. “By erecting thirty thousand dams of significant size across the American West, they dewatered countless rivers, wiped out millions of acres of riparian habitat, shut off many thousands of river miles of salmon habitat, silted over spawning beds, poisoned return flows with agricultural chemicals, set the plague of livestock loose on the arid land – in a nutshell they made it close to impossible for numerous native species to survive.”

— Marc Reisner

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