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“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.”

“Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift; 'T is haste Makes waste; Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.”

Littles Stills Hard Hands Wealth Waste Faults Extremes Dry Sand Haste Thrift Haste Makes Waste

Book:Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine

Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine

“I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight... I know it’s not laziness, but respect for the work, and I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.”

“I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.”

Years Long Play My Own Creative Waste My Friends Instance Dry Spells Sparks Haste Creative Spark Haste Makes Waste

Author:Stephen King

“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

“It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste.”

Has Beens Stills Done Faces Courses Fine Waste Skins Substance Features Dry Wrinkles Cracked

Book:The Lover

Source: The Lover

“In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I grunted wisely. "Probably ran out of water. That's the thing about deserts. Dry." "Indeed. A fascinating analysis. But survivors reaching Hebron report differently: monsters fell upon them in the wastes." "What, fell upon them in a squashed-them kind of way?" "More the leaped-out-and-slew-them kind. (...)”

Way Kind Water Attention Week Mets Waste Monsters Disaster Desert Ran Analysis Dry Reports Reaching Fascinating Survivor Caravans

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.”

World Wells Children Real Hands Sun Waste Lonely Islam Desert Dry Unitarian

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.”

Men Long Country Dies Cities Blood Waste Towns Giants Streams Dry Midst Bores Long Ago Incessantly Devouring

Book:The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history

Source: The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history

“Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.”

Mind Character Might Waste Practicals Dry Laziness Good Character Indolence Uselessness Good Mind Useful Life

Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts