“It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.” YearsLongThreeChristWonderfulTreeCenturyFoolThousandDiseaseWesternWoodsSavedForestsFloodThousand YearsTempestDroughtAvalanchesRedwoods Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.” HumansDifferentSufferingThousandDiseaseCuresBeing HumanAntidoteEveryone Is Different Author:James Altucher
“If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.” IfsYearsWellsHas BeensDoneMightEyeUniverseSleepForgetAttentionBreakWeekCenturyThousandDiseaseGratefulCreditAdvertisingHis EyesThousand YearsRapturePulpitNever SleepWorking For God Author:Mark Twain
“What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.” PeopleKnowsNeedsYearsAmericaFiveThousandDiseaseMinorsAsthma Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.” EarthHumanityNatureEnvironmentTreeSeaFoolThousandDiseaseSavedForestsWildernessFloodMother NatureTempestDroughtNature And EnvironmentPlant A TreeForests And TreesAvalanchesWorld EnvironmentRedwoodsSave The EnvironmentSave NatureTree PlantingGreen TreesPlants And TreesArbor Day Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.” PeopleYearsLittlesSeemsDiesBitsFiveFourThousandDiseaseLittle BitHundredCancerBackgrounds Author:Jim Valvano
“Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.” YearsWarHumanityPeaceThousandShapesDiseaseGoldRingsLustThousand YearsFoul Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson