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“The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.”

Source: Silent Spring

“The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.”

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Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly, but by the colour and movement of the water and sky, by the sounds and scents and gentle stirrings that were all about me.”

Remember Sound Water Sea Sky Movement Materials Rivers Fishes Boat Evening Gentle Colour Lakes Fishing Scent Realised Stirring Good Evening

Author:Roderick Haig-Brown

“It is not a good idea, either, to attach material such as Krystal Flash or Flashabou, then trim all strands at one spot. This gives most of the reflectiveness at one location - where the strands were severed. Instead, clip off the strands at different lengths along the entire body - that way you'll see little sparkles of light throughout the pattern”

Source: Advanced Fly Fishing Techniques: Secrets of an Avid Fisherman

“Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis on midge materials as well as enough fur and feathers to whip out a half dozen of virtually every conceivable dry pattern nature can throw at me. I have used it once, in 1993.”

Wells Enough Together Used Hours Half Sea Special Materials Rivers Patterns Fishes Boat Dry Lakes Fishing Dozen Emphasis Feathers Whips Fur Vests Midges

Author:Jack Ohman

“Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.”

“No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel.”

Should Writing Believe Has Beens Purpose I Believe Novel Sea Materials Involved Sake Fishes Thirty Fisherman Tilt

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.”

Made Light Behinds Alive Sea Rocks Changed Materials Grew Golden Desert Sand Angle Time Of Day Sahara Apricots

Book:Force of circumstance

Source: Force of circumstance

“Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.”

Firsts Use Form Used Water Rich Sea Ready Materials Creatures Spring Bottom Warm Surface Particles Minerals

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“The Revelations is an amazing, rich material that is full of stories about angels and angels being sent down to Earth to wipe out a third of the population. There are angels that come down and wipe out a third of the population and then another angel will come down and wipe out a third of all the animals living in the sea and another angel will come down and wipe out all the vegetation on the land. They are some vengeful individules, in Revelations, the angels. There is a lot of destructive capacity in an angel's being.”

Stories Earth Animal Rich Sea Land Materials Angel Capacity Thirds Down And Population Revelations Destructive Wipe Down To Earth Vegetation Vengeful

Author:Misha Collins

“Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.”

“Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.”

People Ideas Inspiration Sea Minutes Materials Communication Grew Civilization Raw Materials

Author:Thor Heyerdahl

“The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord, is a vestige of an archetypal joy that has to do with sustenance, material and spiritual.”

Ends Spiritual Joy Water Lines Dark Sea Materials Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Sparks Thrill Cords Sustenance Spinal Cord Dark Water

Book:A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge

Source: A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge

“Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.”

Littles Country Problem Lying Poor Sea Materials Forgotten Appeals Islands Regions Isolated Desperation Emergencies Strategic Poor Countries Niger

Author:Desmond Tutu

“The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.”

Earth Science Natural Wealth Sea Materials Prosperity Productions Earth Day Eco

Book:The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster