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“In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.”

“For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.”

World Years Has Beens Bigs Water Millions Air This World Planets Ocean Seasons Species Including Forests Weather Atmosphere Temperature Living On Great Gifts Woods And Forests

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.”

“Canadians have been very generous toward Haiti after the earthquake and, thanks to you, our most vulnerable people have received food, drinkable water, shelter, medical care and education. For that, we are extremely grateful.”

People Has Beens Care Water Grateful Medical Thanks Vulnerable Generous Shelter Earthquakes Haiti Medical Care

Author:Laurent Lamothe

“I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Water Gone Honestly Suits Faster Tied Rushing

Author:Ryan Lochte

“Abundance is the natural state of the universe--of this there can be no doubt. Just as the number of stars in the heavens or drops of water in the ocean is beyond counting, so are the spiritual and material blessings that have been prepared for us.”

Has Beens States Spiritual Universe Heaven Stars Water Natural Numbers Doubt Materials Blessing Ocean Prepared No Doubt Abundance Counting Drop Of Water

Book:A Treasury of Spiritual Quotations, Poems and Prayers: Words of Love and Wisdom

Source: A Treasury of Spiritual Quotations, Poems and Prayers: Words of Love and Wisdom

“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”

Source: The Man on the Ceiling

“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.”

Source: The Training Of The Human Plant

“If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.”

Ifs Way Should Has Beens Water History Should Have East Ships Floats Should Have Been Emperor

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?”

Has Beens Water Brain Company Too Much Loneliness Pursuit Islands Emptiness Thirst Sailor

Author:Margaret Atwood

“The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water... I don't think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky... but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.”

Ifs Thinking Want Has Beens Matter Earth Together Speak Water Inspired Stuck Strings Composer Composition Paragraph Flour Tchaikovsky

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.”

“How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don’t even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along.”

Ifs Has Beens Running Lying Water Clear Pure Welcome Streams Pouring Refills

Book:The Dog Stars

Source: The Dog Stars

“Are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been all the significance of its life--a significance which is to vanish as the waters which come and go where no man has need of them?”

Men Needs Has Beens Soul Water Work Situation Struggle Demand Tragic Significance Comes And Goes Renounce

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)