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“Devoutly the teachers point out huge fumigated domes; but beneath the statues there's no love, no love beneath the eyes set in crystal. Love is there, in flesh ripped by thirst, in the tiny hut struggling against the flood; love is there, in ditches where snakes of hunger wrestle, in the sad sea that rocks dead gulls, and in the darkest stinging kiss under pillows.”

Eye Love Is Struggle Teacher Sea Rocks Huge Kissing Hunger Flesh Tiny Flood Thirst Snakes Statues Crystals Pillow Ripped No Love Huts Domes Gulls

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.”

Sun Clear Cutting Sea Food Huge Essence Cooking Surface Setting Bitter Settings Rising Culinary Smooth Lemons Illuminating Membranes

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.”

Source: Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Novels & Tales (Illustrated): 30 Classics in One Volume: A Christmas Carol, The Battle of Life, The Chimes, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree, Doctor Marigold, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations and more

“During bomb drills, we students were told to crouch under our desks. Apparently the desks used in classrooms in the fifties were made of an exceptionally missile-resistant variety of wood. During the Cold War years I often wondered why it never occurred to our defense planners to protect the entire nation from nuclear attack by simply covering it, from sea to shining sea, with a huge Strategic Classroom Desk.”

Years Made War Used Nations Sea Students Huge Cold Protect Shining Woods Defense Nuclear Variety Bombs Classroom Desks Cold War Strategic Covering Missiles Drills Planners

Author:Dave Barry

“The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the day you run out. Then all you have is the recharge flow, which comes from precipitation. This is not decades away, this is years away. We're already seeing huge shortages in China, where the Yellow River runs dry for part of each year. The Yellow River is the cradle of Chinese civilization. It first failed to reach the sea in 1972, and since 1985 it's run dry for part of each year. For 1997 it was dry for 226 days.”

Years Firsts Ends Shows Problem Running Water Seeing Sea Huge Goes On Civilization Flow Rivers Environmental China Decades Chinese Dry Yellow Cradle Shortage

Author:Lester R. Brown

“People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.”

“A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.”

Eye Lost Sea Huge Fool Mass Sight Towns Wide London Smoke Dirty Wilderness Crowns Sail Coal Bricks Here And There Caps Shipping Tiptoes Masts Peeping Canopy Steeples

Author:Lord Byron

“The responsibility of the scientist or journalist is to convey the context. If you're talking about the Arctic Sea ice, you have to embrace the reality that there's a huge number of other things that influence that on a year-to-year basis.”

Ifs Years Reality Numbers Responsibility Talking Sea Influence Huge Scientist Bases Embrace Ice Journalist Arctic Huge Numbers

Author:Andrew Revkin

“Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.”

Mind Dream Water Memories Dark Sea Huge Bed Decades Thrive Staying Surviving Shipwreck Deep Water Staying Power

Author:J. G. Ballard

“One of the first big bubbles, of course, was the huge and horrible South Sea Bubble in England. And the aftermath was interesting. Many of you probably don't remember what happened after the South Sea Bubble, which caused an enormous financial contraction, and a lot of pain. They banned publicly traded stock in England for decades.”

Firsts Bigs Pain Remember Courses Interesting Happened Sea Huge England South Financial Decades Enormous Horrible Bubbles Banned Aftermath Contractions

Author:Charlie Munger

“We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.”

Humans Past Energy Grows Sea Land Century Huge Ocean Harvest Habitat Sea Change

Author:Annalee Newitz

“Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish them dry.”

Sea Planets Huge Ocean Rivers Fishes Dry Lakes Fishing Ecosystems Tolls Ocean Sea Lakes And Rivers

Author:Sharon Gannon

“Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world.”

“Melting of the huge Antarctic glaciers, proceeding more rapidly than anticipated, threatens a rise in sea level that will drive tens of millions from the low-lying plains of Bangladesh alone, with disastrous consequences elsewhere.”

Lying Levels Millions Sea Huge Lows Consequence Elsewhere Melting Proceeding Bangladesh Glaciers

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I think we should be prepared, given environmental and political change for large-scale migration. If sea levels rise and 200 million people in Bangladesh and 300 million people in Indonesia need to move, and the entire Chinese seaboard, New York City - that's going to be huge.”

“We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the planet's hydrology already, the cycles of drought and flood both amped up because warm air holds more water vapor than cold. These things are happening with a one-degree increase and going to two degrees won't be twice as bad, the increase in damage won't be linear, it most certainly will be exponential. So it was precisely the wrong moment to elect Trump.”