“The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes of disease know that an impure atmosphere is most unfavourable to the enjoyment of health, and an efficient cause to shorten human existence within the natural life of man. It is therefore most desirable that decisive measures should be devised and generally adopted to ensure to all a pure atmosphere, in which to live during their lives.” KnowsMenShouldHumansCausesNaturalExistenceAirPureDiseaseAdvantageBreatheAtmosphereEnjoymentEfficientDesirableAdoptedDisadvantagesHuman ExistenceNatural Life Author:Robert Owen
“Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.” NaturalEventsDiseaseHardshipDesirableEarly Death Book:Women & madness Source: Women & madness
“Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied territory, for the economic development of which the investment of foreign capital is very desirable.” EnjoyNaturalEconomicDevelopmentEqualResourcesTradeInvestmentTerritoryDesirableNatural ResourcesEconomic Development Author:Koki Hirota
“Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.” EvilNaturalIllScaryTemptationDesirablePerilFascinationCalamityNecessary Evil Author:Saint John Chrysostom
“It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving, or that the survival of the societies we know depends upon filling a simple set of prescriptions. It is all too complex and dynamic, whether it involves managing greenhouse gases or Nile snails... The future condition of the globe's interlocking natural and social systems depends more on human behavior than on the further investigation of natural processes, however desirable that may be.” KnowsHumansMayWholeWould BeSocialProcessNaturalSimpleEnvironmentConditionsDependsBalanceBehaviorSurvivalComplexesEnvironmentalSustainabilityInvestigationGlobesImprovingHuman BehaviorDesirableFillingPrescriptionsGreenhousesSocial SystemsGreenhouse GasesSnailNileDeteriorating Author:Gilbert F. White