“The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can externalize costs. The cost of pesticides to the farmer and the cost of the pesticides to the soil and groundwater are regarded similarly by the public: "a serious problem that something ought to be done about." But the problem is more fundamental than this glib statement would indicate, for soil pollution is an expense of production. So are pesticides and nitrates in our farm wells. So is the loss of farmers from the land.” WellsMeanDoneProblemLossEnvironmentLandExampleSeriousOughtCostFundamentalsTradeProductionsStatementsSoilExpensesFarmsFarmersPollutionDeficitPesticidesGroundwater Author:Wes Jackson
“Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold, silver, turquoise, and copper beneath its surface they carved up the territory like children sneaking to the fridge and slicing off a chocolate cake bit by bit: hoping at first that the loss wouldn’t be noticed but ultimately not really caring.” MenFirstsChildrenFoundBitsLossWhiteLandGoldCaringSurfaceSilverChocolateHorizonTexasTerritoryCakeMexicoWhite ManOnce Upon A TimeFridgesCopperGold And SilverNew MexicoChocolate CakeTurquoise Book:Jewels: A Secret History Source: Jewels: A Secret History
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” LifeInspirationalLongDoeSuccessTimeNatureLosesLossBusinessCourageRiskLandPositiveFailureTravelLong TimeLosingDiscoveryCommitmentSightEntrepreneurNostalgiaEntrepreneurshipUncertaintyShoreDiscoveringConsentTaking RisksRisk-takingGreat TravelNewnessOvercoming FailurePhotography And TravelAppeaseNew DiscoveriesRisk And FailureChance And RiskRisks And Taking ChancesAdventurous SoulsBoldness And CourageInspirational WisdomExploration And Adventure Book:The Counterfeiters: A Novel Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel
“And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.” YoungFoundNamesGivenLossGriefLandRememberedLonesomeGiven Names Book:Yesterdays in a Busy Life Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life
“There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.” MayLosesLossPoorPovertySeaLandAdvantageNothing To Lose Author:Elizabeth Inchbald
“But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an epidemic affecting the lives of millions of youth. It is a sickness that comes of a loss of values, of an abandonment of moral absolutes. The virus which has infected them comes of leaderless families, leaderless schools, leaderless communities. It comes of an attitude that says, "We will not teach moral values. We will leave the determination of such to the individual."” WorldFactsSchoolValuesIndividualCommunityLossAttitudeMoralTeachMillionsLandYouthDeterminationAbsolutesSicknessAbandonmentVirusesEpidemicsBlinkMoral ValuesAbsolutism Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“When you talk about "infertility" you're already using a land-based metaphor - a woman's body compared to property, to be considered fruitful or barren. And "estate" encompasses both legacy and landscape. Think of Emerson, referring to his son's death as "the loss of a beautiful estate."” ThinkingBodyBeautifulLossLandSonPropertyMetaphorLandscapeLegacyEstatesBarrenReferringWomen's BodiesInfertility Author:Monica Youn
“And people really behaved in a fraudulent way or something, we'll go back and find the culprits later on. But that really isn't the problem we have. I mean that's where it came from, though. We leveraged up and if you have a 20 percent fall in value of a $20 trillion asset, that's $4 trillion. And when $4 trillion lands - losses land in the wrong part of this economy, it can gum up the whole place.” PeopleIfsWayMeanWholeProblemValuesFallLossEconomyLandPercentAssetsGumCulprit Author:Warren Buffett