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“But there'll be plenty of room on Earth then because right now, what is it?-Only one-fifth of the Earth's surface is land, right? Whereas then there will be no more sea, it'll all be land, seas will be gone. The seas are the World's great septic tanks, its great cesspools, where all the waste of the World drains off into the sea.”

World Earth Rooms Gone Sea Land Right Now Waste Surface Plenty Heavenly Fifth Tanks Drains

Author:David Berg

“The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, / Wrapped up in a five pound note.”

Beautiful Five Sea Humour Green Notes Boat Plenty Pounds Honey Owl Peas Lear

Author:Edward Lear

“Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.”

Doe Country States Rich Sea Comfort Plenty Hills Assurance Tranquil Pennsylvania

Book:Rebecca Harding Davis's Stories of the Civil War Era: Selected Writings from the Borderlands

Source: Rebecca Harding Davis's Stories of the Civil War Era: Selected Writings from the Borderlands

“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.”

“You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.”

Rooms Sea Plenty Telling The Truth

Book:Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition

Source: Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition