“(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation.” HumansEarthProcessWaterCommonGenerationsAirHabitPeriodsBenefitsResourcesDestructionDrinkingTechniqueLandscapeStreamsDividedPollutionFillingChokeHabitatDepositsDrinking WaterVegetation Author:Lewis Mumford
“The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth.” YouthDevelopmentPeriodsGloryResources Book:Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom Source: Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom
“There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.” FirstsSufferingPassionBreakFailingPeriodsResourcesWoundsCuresMortalsIronFatigueArchesObstinacy Author:Samuel Johnson
“Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.” CompanyPeriodsMajorsResourcesInnovationFinancialIntensePullingDistressProtective Author:Peter Senge
“I enjoy that, and the idea of doing small things over a period of time. I think there are certain things you can do for water control in America, because that will be our most precious resource. In America, you pay more for water than you do for gas.” ThinkingIdeasAmericaCertainEnjoyWaterCan DoPayPeriodsResourcesGasSmall Things Author:Robin Williams
“During the current period of health care development in our country, improvement of the management quality is becoming increasingly important. This is due to many processes, including new ones, such as increase in the number of financial resources used to implement the state guarantees program, the need for more efficient spending of funds, rearrangement of cash flows, single-channel financing” NeedsImportantCountryStatesCareUsedProcessNumbersQualityDevelopmentBecomingPeriodsResourcesProgramFlowIncreaseManagementIncludingFinancialCurrentsSpendingDuesImprovementOur CountryHealth CareGuaranteesFundCashEfficientFinancingCash FlowFinancial Resources Author:Veronika Skvortsova
“Certainly whatever climate change and global warming means, we've got a big issue here. Right now, this civilization or this period that we're in is probably going to need the resources off our planet, perhaps the resources from the asteroids, perhaps there will be some on the moon, perhaps some on Mars that we can utilize for our own uses here.” NeedsMeanUseBigsIssuesPlanetsPeriodsCivilizationRight NowMoonResourcesClimateClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingMarsOur PlanetAsteroids Author:Edgar Mitchell
“During that time period all of our tribes were suffering extremely from poverty and neglect. And the reason I say neglect is because the U.S. Government was neglecting its true responsibilities they agreed to in exchange for our land and resources. What I and others attempted to do, and in essence we did, was bring attention to our sovereign rights, the rights we had retained when the treaties were made.” MadeReasonGovernmentSufferingAttentionResponsibilityPovertyRightsLandPeriodsResourcesEssenceNeglectSovereignTribesTreatiesTime Periods Author:Leonard Peltier
“As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.” ThinkingHumansLongSaidMatterHardBigsNationsPeriodsConsequenceResourcesMajorityPopulationPracticalsHistoricHuman HistoryChunksLong Periods Of Time Author:Barack Obama