Best loss & earth Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.”

Humans Earth Water Loss Growing Changed Periods Demand Diversity Fuel Human History Ecosystems Fiber Irreversible Timber Fresh Water Diversity Of Life

Author:Gary Larson

“The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.”

Ifs Soul Earth Dies Heaven Loss Suicide Add Profession Gambling Ruined Martyr Renounce Forfeit

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.”

Source: The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

“There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.”

Ifs Has Beens Soul Action Earth Found Loss Accepting Forever Air Victory Embrace Everyday Defeat Gentle Settling Pockets Target Flags Defeated Everyday Life Sigh Silk Drifting Turbulence

Book:The Gargoyle

Source: The Gargoyle

“Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie.”

Earth Lying Dies Loss Prove Spring

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.”

“This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own.”

“Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.”

Thinking Children Hands Earth Parent Loss Grief Divine Color Flower Our Children Your Children Touched Shade Think Of You Blooming Withered Parent Child Loss Of A Parent

Author:Richard Hooker

“Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.”

Source: Agrarian Justice

“And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.”

Knows Littles Doe Hands Earth Form Loss Members Eternity Fingers This Life After Death Dissolution

Author:Carl Jung

“African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll.”

Ifs Happens Would Be Today Earth America Faces Loss Rocks Jazz Hip Hop Hips African American Germany Hops Rock And Roll American Music Mumbai African American Music

Author:David Simon

“I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much on Earth, too much suffering. The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.”

Feels Enough Earth Suffering Loss Too Much Rights Share Empathy Tough Free Will

Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten

“Loss makes me feel vulnerable. I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much on Earth, too much suffering. The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.”

Enough Earth Suffering Loss Share Empathy Tough Vulnerable Free Will

Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten

“One of the biggest concerns about going out beyond lower Earth orbit is the radiation. We find that exercise seems to counteract a lot of the negative effects of space flight, like bone loss and muscle atrophy and cardiovascular systems issues. We exercise two hours a day on the station, which is a huge hit out of your day. It's great for staying in shape, but you know, it cuts into the productivity of the crew and if you look at how expensive it is to get a crew into space, if we can keep them healthy and have them exercise, but spend less time doing it, we can get more done.”

Done Earth Hours Loss Cutting Exercise Healthy Concern Negative Bones Productivity Flight

Author:Leroy Chiao

“We were doing something called telemedicine, where we were using the ultrasound. One interesting application of this ultrasound is the possibility that you could possibly use it to measure critical bone areas during a long space mission and track if you're losing bone in these areas. On Earth, when they check you for bone loss, you get in this big machine. It's the size of a room and it's got a platform with an x-ray that scans your whole body and in critical areas and it takes a while and it just wouldn't be practical to have a machine like that in space.”

Long Earth Loss Interesting Possibility Losing Track Bones Application

Author:Leroy Chiao

“Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us.”

Source: An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It

“The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, A dolphin death, O this particular loss A Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried If this small one was tossed away as dross, The very galaxies would have lied. How shall we sing our love's song now In this strange land where all are born to die? Each tree and leaf and star show how The universe is part of this one cry, Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished.”

“But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?”

Men Want Heart Earth Desire Given Loss Love Is Liberty Army Naked Beloved Free Man Ever After Captives

Book:The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

“If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss.”

“Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't actually see it or touch it. But to the Brahma, it simply doesn't exist the way the air and the earth, pain and loss do. To him, the banker's reality is folly. To the banker, the Brahma's ideas are as inconsequential as dust.”

Way Mind Book Ideas Real States Reality Earth Pain Loss Air Dust Folly State Of Mind Hinduism Bankers Brahma Inconsequential Pain And Loss

Book:The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

“During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.”

Men Years Heart Earth Loss Known My Heart Happiest Man Wonderful Wizard Of Oz

Book:7 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's

Source: 7 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's

“I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my ..reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and second hand dreams”

World Want Two Book Dream Hands Earth Loss Fiction Saws Solitude Reflection Riding Pale Echoes Spine Reverie Second Hand

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

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