“Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.” MenHas BeensEarthOrderGivenGrowsAnimalCreativityForeverTreeDyingBecomingWasteBirdRiversClimateDisappearBillionsForestsDestroyedLandscapeDryFewerCrashMarvelousShallowRuinedWildlifeDry Up Author:Anton Chekhov
“If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air. Pollution, pollution, They got smog and sewage and mud. Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud. See the halibuts and the sturgeons Being wiped out by detergents. Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, But they don't last long if they try. Pollution, pollution, You can use the latest toothpaste, And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.” IfsTryingLongTwoUseRunningLastsTurnsWaterCitiesAirColdDrinkWasteBirdMouthsHotEnvironmentalFishesBreatheTwo ThingsSwimPollutionMudTurn-onAmerican CitiesToothpasteAir PollutionSmogSewageHot And ColdHalibut Author:Tom Lehrer
“In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.” WorldHumansSometimesNightSongSunWasteBirdFreezingHuman Love Author:Cormac McCarthy
“What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.” ThinkingKnowsTryingKindWarLeftBitsTreeLandWasteBirdEmptinessStarksSceneryWaste Land Author:George Martin
“Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.” ShouldHandsHappensBeautifulFireImpossibleAirSeaWasteSingingBirdBlueLaysRoundsLovelyWanderDragonsSailSoarJewelsFloatsNestsPhoenixImpossible ThingsToadsGildedLeviathanOatsBehemoth Author:Oscar Wilde
“Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms.” LongProblemEyeTogetherRoomsHealthyDiseaseWasteBirdStandingLegsBonesDamageNecksInternalsFarmsFactoriesBlindnessTwistedImmuneBleedingInfectionFilthyImmune SystemParalysisDeformityRespiratoryAnemia Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it is," she replied calmly. "How did you reach that conclusion?" Beldin demanded. "Because there's no such thing as an empty place, uncle. There are always creatures around --wild animals, mice, insects, birds --and they can all hear." "But what if there weren't? What if the woods are truly empty?" "Why waste your time talking about an impossibility?” IfsCoursesAnimalTalkingCreaturesWasteBirdEmptyWoodsNoiseConclusionWhat IfMiceUnclesInsectsImpossibilityWild AnimalEmpty Places Author:David Eddings
“In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee” StillsSpiritSpeakTreeSolitudeWasteSingingBirdWideTheeDesertSympathyFountain Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“The whole of existence is dancing, except man. The whole of existence is in a very relaxed movement; movement there is, certainly, but it is utterly relaxed. Trees are growing and birds are chirping and rivers are flowing, stars are moving: everything is going in a very relaxed way. No hurry, no haste, no worry, and no waste. Except man. Man has fallen a victim of his mind.” MenWayMindWholeMovingStarsExistenceWorryGrowingTreeMovementWasteBirdRiversVictimDancingFallenRelaxationRelaxedHasteNo Worries Author:Rajneesh