Katey Walter quotes

Katey Walter quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I am shocked, truly shocked. I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I am now just back in from the field in Alaska. The permafrost is melting fast all over the Arctic, lakes are forming everywhere and methane is bubbling up out of them.”
-- Katey Walter

#Lakes Quotes #Alaska Quotes #Melting Quotes

“Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise, and orderly arranged, after the manner of the copper or tin worms, which distillers use to cool their liquors as they distil over. The whole circumference of each of these streaks was about the thickness of a hair of one's head. ... all consisted of very small green globules joined together: and there were very many small green globules as well. [The earliest recorded observation of the common green alga Spyrogyra.]”
“Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an original thought or observation in a fishing book, I've turned the corner of the page down.”
“Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.”

Source : Song: License To Steal, Album: Last Days of the Century, 1988
“Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.”
“We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.”
“I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Carly Schroeder Kicks the Winning Goal in Gracie" by B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 29, 2007.
“There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.”
“I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.”
“Honolulu is a melting pot.”
“The ice caps are melting, which we see over and over again. Yeah, they're melting on Mars, too!”

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