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“...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).”

Knows World Believe Made Ends Stars Water Sky Land Add Expanse

Book:The Island of the Day Before

Source: The Island of the Day Before

“[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world... Land, labor, and capital are extremely heterogeneous aggregates, not much better than earth, air, fire, and water.”

World Real Earth Water Fire Air Land Depends Models Labor Enormous Chosen Complexity Divides Real World Classification Taxonomy Labor And Capital

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“The new earth will be like Eden. ..the deserts will gush with water. ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish.”

Earth Beautiful Water Land Desert Eden New Earth

Book:Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About

Source: Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About

“I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.”

“What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.”

Water Failing Land Population Diets Vegan Efficient Vegan Diet

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“Water is life. We are the people who live by the water. Pray by these waters. Travel by the waters. Eat and drink from these waters. We are related to those who live in the water. To poison the waters is to show disrespect for creation. To honor and protect the waters is our responsibility as people of the land.”

People Shows Water Responsibility Land Creation Praying Honor Drink Protect Environmental Related Poison Live By Disrespect Water Is Life

Book:The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings

Source: The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings

“Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning.”

Giving Feels Firsts Soul Water Boys Sea Crazy Land Brother Holy Healthy Sight Environmental Ships Greek Mystical Deities Vibrations Voyages Passengers Robust Healthy Soul

Book:Moby Dick

Source: Moby Dick

“The Federal Government has a responsibility to manage wisely those public lands and forests under its jurisdiction necessary in the interest of the public as a whole. ... In the utilization of these lands, the people are entitled to expect that their timber, minerals, streams and water supply, wildlife and recreational values should be safeguarded, improved and made available not only for this but for future generations.”

“Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies, or in the safety of the woods, prayers are being repeated, as they have for thousands of years, and common people with uncommon courage and the whispers of their ancestors in their ears continue their struggles to protect the land and water and trees on which their very existence is based. And like small tributaries joining together to form a mighty river, their force and power grows.”

Source: The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings

“... laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants only to dispose toxic sludge on land. We "clean" water only to disperse toxic-laced solids on farmland or landfills. Pollution control becomes a kind of giant shell game by which we move pollutants between air, water, groundwater, and land.”

Source: Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr

“The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit those regions. The fish of the Great Lakes are laced with mercury from industrial plants, and fluoride from aluminum plants poisons the land and the people. Sewage from the population centers is mixed with PCBs and PBS in the watershed of the great lakes and the Finger Lakes, and the water is virtually nowhere safe for any living creatures.”

Source: All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life

“The American people today are involved in a warfare more deadly than the war in Vietnam, but few of them seem aware of it and even fewer of them are doing anything about it. This is a war that is being waged against the American environment, against our lands, air, and water, which are the basis of that environment.”

People War Seems Today Water Environment Air Land Involved Bases Environmental Vietnam Fewer Pollution Warfare Air And Water

Author:Norman Cousins

“In a mad moment, my family and I purchased a home in Maine because it's the place in the world that my wife loves better than any other place or any other human, and so I have committed my life and what had once been my economic security that has now returned to insecurity, to a patch of painful, rocky land on the shores of horrible, cold waters to a place where people go in the summer to experience autumn because leaves start falling on August 1.”

“I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice.”

Thinking House Water Nice Land Building Woods Being Nice

Author:Ethan Canin

“I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.”

Men Firsts Made Water Fate Violence Journey Land Arms Shore Savages Coast Fugitive Battered Land And Water

Book:The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation

Source: The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation

“I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.”

I Can Country Life Is Water Growing Land Sight Native Awkward Native Land Country Love

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.”

Country Water Sky Land Borders Mercury Maine Impasse

Author:Tom Allen

“The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.”

Needs Wells Water Lord Sun Failing Land Spring Garden Guides

Author:Isaiah

“And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across the lands and waters.”

Literature Water Land Summer Carrie Runners Handful Wanderers Land And Water Runner Up

Author:Virgil

“True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.”

People Want Should Use Easy Water Levels Wise Land Resources Should Have Access Income Wealthy Conservation Exclusive General Public Water Resources Land And Water Easy Access

Author:George Aiken

“Normally, people who are frustrated out in the water are frustrated on land. They brought their frustration with them. If you go to a beach where there are a hundred guys out, and you paddle out looking to ride waves alone, you're setting yourself up.”

People Ifs Guy Water Land Hundred Wave Setting Settings Beach Frustration Frustrated

Author:Laird Hamilton

“The canyon country does not always inspire love. To many it appears barren, hostile, repellent - a fearsome mostly waterless land of rock and heat, sand dunes and quicksand, cactus, thornbrush, scorpion, rattlesnake, and agaraphobic distances. To those who see our land in that manner, the best reply is, yes, you are right, it is a dangerous and terrible place. Enter at your own risk. Carry water. Avoid the noonday sun. Try to ignore the vultures. Pray frequently.”

Trying Doe Country Water Sun Risk Land Rocks Dangerous Inspire Praying Terrible Distance Heat Sand Hostile Barren Canyons Vulture Cactus Quicksand Scorpions Rattlesnakes Inspire Love Sand Dunes

Author:Edward Abbey

“My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.”

Water Land Taught Mom Dad Clean My Dad My Mom Our Family Greatest Gifts Clean Water

Author:Erin Brockovich

“Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air, to renew the forests, to care for the plants, to protect the creatures, to celebrate the seas, to rejoice in the sunlight, to sing the song of the stars, to recall our destiny, to renew our spirits, to reinvigorate our bodies, to recreate the human community, to promote justice and peace, to love our children and love one another, to join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery, for the healing of the Earth and the renewal of all life.”

“Climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism. And if we do not get our act together and listen to what the scientists say, you're going to see countries all over the world struggling over limited amounts of water, limited amounts of land to grow their crops ask you're going to see all kinds of international conflict.”

Ifs World Kind Country Together Asks Grows Growth Water Struggle Land Amount Conflict Scientist Climate Climate Change International Terrorism All Kinds Related Crops

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyaged main And fruitful lands- for all of living things Through thee alone are evermore conceived, Through thee are risen to visit the great sun- Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on, Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away, For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers, For thee waters of the unvexed deep Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky Glow with diffused radiance for thee!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)

“The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.”

World Long Has Beens Earth Water Sea Land Meetings Ancient Shore Ancient World Land And Water

Book:The Edge of the Sea

Source: The Edge of the Sea

“The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water.”

Ifs Country Might Water Magic Week Land Scales Dust Finding Yourself Thick Shelves Wages Snakes Pouring Ponds Sticky Tenacious Chalk Kettles Slime Plasters Teapots Hissing

Book:Spindle's End

Source: Spindle's End

“Even where the land was more receptive, settlers soon learned to take some precautions before planting their vegetables. Maize and pumpkin seeds were soaked in water for several days and then blackened with tar before planting - the most effective way to deter rats, mice and birds.”

Way Water Land Bird Seeds Vegetables Mice Rats Receptive Pumpkin Precaution Settlers Maize

Author:Bee Dawson

“His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with His glory.”

Voice Water Land Glory Rushing Radiant Rushing Water

Author:Christy Nockels

“Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.”

Water Land Perceive Land And Water

Author:David Wallace

“A pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land and called it progress.”

Men Left Water Cutting Progress Tree Land Dust Indian Grass Bob Wire Pioneers Upside Down

Author:Charles Marion Russell

“Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.”

Men Mean Water Risk Land Rocks Danger Wind Ships Boards Thieves Rats Peril Sailor Pirate

Book:Shakspere's Werke, herausg. und erklärt von N. Delius. [With] Nachträge und Berichtigungen

Source: Shakspere's Werke, herausg. und erklärt von N. Delius. [With] Nachträge und Berichtigungen

“Some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits. And they use our campaign finance system to loot our commons, to steal from our treasury, and the other shared resources of our community - the air, the water, the public lands, the wildlife, the things that belong to all of us that are held in trust for future generations. Corporations cannot act philanthropically in America.”

“O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.”

Want May Long Different Soul Body Water Imagine Land Thousand Longing Satisfaction Absence My Soul Dry Different Things Weary Thirst Psalms Really Long

Author:Randy Alcorn

“When a plane lands in the Hudson and there's a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That's it. The water is still splashing. Here's the photo of the thing.”

Stills Water Land Planes Users Ferry Splashing

Author:Biz Stone

“Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal that begins its life in the water, but ends it on land - already, that's pretty weird. But, also, a lot of them are incredibly tiny and look wildly improbable. They have funny little toes, they stretch their throats into weird bubble shapes when they croak, and some of them are poisonous to the touch. I think kids from the twenty-second century might mythologize amphibians the way kids today mythologize dinosaurs.”

“What we're also looking at, if we do not transform our energy system, is more international war and conflict as countries fight over limited natural resources, including water and land to grow their crops.”

Ifs War Country Fighting Energy Grows Water Natural Land Conflict Resources Including International Crops Natural Resources

Author:Bernie Sanders

“For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.”

Men Lasts Found Water White Land Quiet Mountain Gold White Man Short Time Winding Down

Author:Chief Joseph

“It's time to respect the treaties our ancestors signed and care for our land, water, and cultures so that they remain healthy for our future generations.”

Care Culture Water Generations Land Healthy Our Future Ancestor Future Generation Treaties

Author:Winona LaDuke

“We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.”

Water Tree Land Roots Wings Fishes Lakes Rice Paws Maple Syrup Fins Maple Syrup Aquifers

Author:Winona LaDuke

“I learned that a healthy society is made up of loving, trusting individuals, and that these individuals in turn protect their environment, become stewards of our land, air and water, and they make peace, rather than war.”

Made War Turns Individual Water Environment Air Land Healthy Protect Making Peace Stewards Air And Water Healthy Society

Author:Robin Lim

“The fact is, when you talk to people, they know that something weird is going on, particularly people who are connected to the land or the water. They can see it. What perhaps is not so evident to them, unfortunately, is what the solution is. But whether they call it climate change or not, it doesn't matter. The point is, they can see there's something fundamentally weird going on here.”

People Knows Matter Facts Water Land Solutions Climate Climate Change Connected Evident

Author:Christiana Figueres

“And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded.”

War Water Levels Cities Saws Land Built Towns Dry Village Mexico Astounded Dry Land

Book:The Conquest of New Spain

Source: The Conquest of New Spain

“In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.”

Water Cities Land Arms Mistress Gypsy Canals Amsterdam Bracelet

Author:Felix Marti-Ibanez

“Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.”

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