3 Quotes & Sayings By Marc Reisner

Marc Reisner is the award-winning author of Cadillac Desert, The Vanishing American, and Blood and Dreams. He has published six nonfiction books, including Tom Sawyer, A River Runs Through It, Cadillac Desert, and The Great Depression. He is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Harper's Magazine, Rolling Stone magazine, The New Yorker magazine Read more

He lives in Los Angeles.

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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
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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