Tim Palmer > Quotes

“Water is always working, reorganizing the land.”
― Tim Palmer, Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement

“In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.”
― Tim Palmer, Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement

“Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more.”
― Tim Palmer, Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement

“When I participated in small discussion meetings in Roger Penrose’s office, I felt that the Copernican principle was being violated; I was manifestly in a preferred frame of reference at the very centre of the universe.”
― Tim Palmer, The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World