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“It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.”

Ifs Problem Earth Hours Effects Observation Breathing Ecology Conservation Morbid Greenhouses

Author:Jerry Adler

“If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests, and barbarously renew Cyclopean feasts? While Earth not only can your needs supply, but, lavish of her store, provides for luxury; a guiltless feast administers with ease, and without blood is prodigal to please.”

Ifs Men Needs Earth Blood Please Stores Teeth Bread Luxury Mortals Breathing Ease Feds Vegan Guests Bleeding Prodigals

Author:Pythagoras

“Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.”

May Running Earth Lines Risk Air Draws Crosses Breathing Breasts Heroic Lacking Juice Pestilence Limes Languish

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love - the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun, all that we mean when we speak of the external world. I want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a conscious, direct human being. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.”

World Want Humans Mean Earth Speak Understanding Loses Human Beings Wonder Sun Sea Conscious Adults Direct Contact Breathing Superficial Breathing Life Understanding Myself

Book:Stories. Selected,

Source: Stories. Selected,

“How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and at me ... his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile.”

Heart Earth Hate Heaven Sides Watches Creatures Hot Fats Breathing Climbs Tails Bulls Defiance Stiles

Book:Personal Pleasures

Source: Personal Pleasures

“If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Made Book Home Body Earth Dies Sun Forever Rich Air Fields Flower Rivers England Corners Dust Breathing Bores Concealed

Author:Rupert Brooke

“[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing.”

Earth Attention Wind Paid Constant Desert Breathing

Book:My Beloved World

Source: My Beloved World

“... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or heathens, they will speak in a tongue all can understand. there are even countries where the moving, breathing people are less intelligible, dwell in a world further apart form you, than that silent population under the earth.”

People World Country Earth Moving Form Speak Company Quiet Silent Population Jew Tongue Breathing Musings Heathen

Book:Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea

Source: Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea

“Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.”

People Ifs Stills Earth Lost Left Grief Air Breathing Consumption

Author:Aunjanue Ellis