Orrin Pilkey Quotations

It is immensely worse as far as damage to the shoreline and beachfront retreat, ... goes across the islands very quickly.

There is no such thing as an easy community to evacuate.

There's just a bunch of well-off people who have been very imprudent, even stupid, and they've built their buildings right next to a beach, ... They're asking us to pay for restoring the beach when all we have to do is tell them to move their buildings and the beach will be restored.

You pay a lot of money for that beach and that beach is going to disappear periodically, so you pay a lot of money again and again and again.

This is an obvious form of welfare for the rich.

You don't have an erosion problem until you build something too close to the water.

I remember after the storm we would drive up and down the beach. Seemed like for 10 years or so we would see those steps going to nowhere and plainly cleaned-off cement slabs, ... For us, they were a symbol of the storm and its enormity.

I really believe Florida, more than any state, has not gotten hold of its erosion problems. Florida beaches are either doomed or the state is going to have a huge nourishment bill in the future.