“Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.” MenPainGrowsHalfMusicLaughingPoetCostRiversBeastSighReedsTrue God Book:Poetical works Source: Poetical works
“While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new atmosphere.” WayNeedsGivingYearsMayValuesAsksTreeCostRiversForestsAtmosphereRight WayWrong WayOld Trees Author:Paul Hawken
“Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.” WayWellsKindDoeMadeUseProblemFoundCommonEconomyClearSeaExampleReadyMaterialsCostDemandRiversManagementSolveCommon SensePlentyExpensesConstructionArchitectSiteMarbleRubbleThrifty Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water. I am sure that some will say that a rapidly growing market for water is "good for the economy," and most of us are still affluent enough to pay the cost. Nevertheless, it is a considerable cost that we are now paying for drinkable water, which we once had in plentiful supply at little cost or none at all. And the increasing of the cost suggests that the time may come when the cost will be unaffordable.” YearsMayLittlesStillsEnoughWaterPayEconomyGrowingCostRiversDrinkingEnvironmentalStreamsNeverthelessDrinking WaterAffluentPlentiful Book:The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays Source: The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays
“Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.” WorldWayDoeAsksLosesWalksPathCostRiversOne WayBridgesPawns Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“A lot of people think that regulations bring higher costs, but regulation is also about making sure that someone doesn't get to beat out the competition because they're dumping filth in the river or spewing poisons in the air.” PeopleThinkingAirHigherCostBeatsRiversCompetitionPoisonRegulationFilth Author:Elizabeth Warren
“It's risky to allow radiation to constantly go up into the atmosphere. The main criticism of this approach of entombing it is that it would cost too much, involve too many resources and people. But think of the cost of having all the crops impounded by the government, all the milk being thrown into the river, people's livelihoods destroyed.” PeopleThinkingGovernmentToo MuchCostApproachResourcesRiversCriticismDestroyedAtmosphereThrownMilkRadiationCropsLivelihood Author:Michio Kaku
“So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood (Riza Hawkeye -- Fullmetal Alchemist)” EnjoyBornPayGenerationsBloodCostRiversCrossesShouldersCorpsesNew GenerationAlchemist Author:Hiromu Arakawa