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“The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.”

“I get very excited when I wake up in the morning and I am just full of oxygen. I say that purposefully. I try not to take for granted how lucky we are to have life and breath and opportunity. Once we've got that, we can conquer anything. Truly, I get high on oxygen, and once I graduate from that, what really fulfills me is doing what I love. That, to me, is absolutely priceless.”

Trying Opportunity Morning Lucky Wake Up Breaths Excited Granted Conquer Graduates Oxygen Priceless Getting High

Author:Debbi Fields

“My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour or like an oxygen tank when you can't breath in a world consumed by piety, hypocrisy and self-satisfaction.”

World Self Dark Humour Breaths Satisfaction Hypocrisy Keep Going Pool Favourite Oxygen Consumed Tanks Piety Beckett Self-satisfaction

Author:Simon Critchley

“A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.”

Years Past Certain Next Thousand Breaths Thousand Years Oxygen Molecules Sample

Book:The secret house: 24 hours in the strange and unexpected world in which we spend our nights and days

Source: The secret house: 24 hours in the strange and unexpected world in which we spend our nights and days

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.”

Needs Kind Persons Helping Light Sound Born Cases Example Breaths Boxes Strikes Experiments Candle Oxygen Explosions Caress

Author:Laura Esquivel

“He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.”

Ideas Simple Breaths Gas Oxygen

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all. Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love. I try not to burn up my world with rage. It is so hard.”

World Trying Hard Would Be Fire Our Lives Limits Breaths Breathe Rage Breathing Dragons Destroying Oxygen Lungs Unwise Life Span

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can be sort of blinding,' he said. 'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said. 'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?' 'You cannot.' 'It is my burden, this beautiful face.' 'Not to mention your body.' 'Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.”

“Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.”

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Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world”