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“Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.”

Matter Survival Rivers Realms Coins Nothing Matters

Book:Breakfast in the Ruins

Source: Breakfast in the Ruins

“Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.”

Dream Reality Speak Grief Survival Ideals Rivers Noble Uplifting Sanity Distracted Weeping Platonic Music Speaks

Author:Pam Brown

“When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.”

People Has Beens Justice Economic Movement Fields Activity Survival Rivers Environmental Forests Destroyed Stolen Our Environment Biodiversity

Author:Vandana Shiva

“The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.”

Ifs Water Survival Resources Rain Rivers Crisis Stakes Severe Pearls Harbors Wartime Water Resources Gettysburg Water Crisis

Book:The Coming Water Famine

Source: The Coming Water Famine

“We in Himalaya are facing a crisis of survival due to the suicidal activities being carried out in the name of development… The monstrous Tehri dam is a symbol of this… There is need for a new and long-term policy to protect the dying Himalaya. I do not want to see the death of the most sacred river of the world-the Ganga- for short-term economic gains.”

World Want Needs Long Names Term Economic Dying Policy Development Activity Protect Survival Gains Rivers Crisis Sacred Dues Symbols Long Term Suicidal Short Term Monstrous Dams Himalayas

Author:Sunderlal Bahuguna

“There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you drag a fish up out of the river for your supper if you feel the yank of the hook in your own cheek? I get that part. We can't feel for everyone and everything all the time. We'd die of fear or sorrow a hundred times a day. The thing is, it's gotten so we flick the switch off like it's nothing. And, more often than not, we forget to turn it back on.”

Ifs Feels Dies Turns Forget Grew Sorrow Survival Hundred Rivers Fishes Drag Cheeks Hook Supper

Author:Alissa York

“Holy smoke! We lost our last match and there's a storm coming! Party On! A flash flood swept away all our gear and we're twenty miles from the trailhead! Party On! My femur bone's sticking through my skin and I've gotta cross that river! Party On!”

Lasts Lost Party Holy Survival Rivers Crosses Skins Twenties Bones Storm Miles Smoke Flash Flood Gears Swept Away Storms Coming Flash Floods

Book:98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive

Source: 98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive