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“It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.”

Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life

“Most calves and fawns will soon die. Only the luckiest and fittest will survive. Therefore either hunters or Mother Nature can take them. The logical harvesting strategy is to take calves or fawns during the fall hunting seasons, before winter can waste them.”

Mother Dies Fall Waste Seasons Strategy Winter Logical Hunting Hunters Mother Nature Calves Fawns Hunting Season

Author:Valerius Geist

“The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.”

Ifs Fall Lost Sun Fields Waste Rain Roots Branches Anxious Haste

Book:Jones Very: The Complete Poems

Source: Jones Very: The Complete Poems

“The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.”

Ifs Giving Earth Fall Wish Stars Waste Astronaut Dump Overboard Solid Waste

Author:Mike Mullane

“Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the wood and mountain tall To Rivendell where Elves yet dwell In glades beneath the misty fell Through moor and waste we ride in haste And wither then we cannot tell With foes ahead behind us dread Beneath the sky shall be our bed Until at last our toil be sped Our journey done, our errand sped We must away! We must away! We ride before the break of day!”

Wells May Done Lasts Fall Behinds Break Journey Sky Wind Bed Mountain Waste Rain Blow Woods Halls Tall Dread Toil Foe Haste Misty Errands Moors Sped

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, Cortés'll lay Tenochtitlán to waste again, and later, Ewing will sail again, Adrian'll be blown to pieces again, you and I'll sleep under the Corsican stars again, I'll come to Bruges again, fall in and out of love with Eva again, you'll read this letter again, the sun'll grow cold again. Nietzsche's gramophone record. When it ends, the Old One plays it again, for an eternity of eternities.”

Ends States Play School Fall Belief Stars Grows Sleep Sun Records Pieces Cold Waste Letters Eternity Lays Core Rome Decline Sail Indelible

Book:Cloud Atlas: A Novel

Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel

“I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.”

Dream Fall Waste Falling Asleep

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.”

Fall Grows Parent Water Poor Secret Rich Tree Tears Bears Waste Hatred Fruit Privilege Rising Wicked Sap Manure Tears Falling

Book:New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

Source: New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

“I'm not falling anymore. That's what L says, and she's right. I guess you could say I'm flying. We both are. And I'm pretty sure somewhere up there in the real blue sky and carpenter bee greatness, Amma's flying, too. We all are, depending on how you look at it. Flying or falling, it's up to us. Because the sky isn't really made of blue paint, and there aren't just two kinds of people in this world, the stupid and the stuck. We only think there are. Don't waste your time with either-with anything. It's not worth it.”

People Thinking World Looks Kind Made Two Real Fall Sky Stupid This World Greatness Waste Blue Paint Stuck Flying Bees Worth It Blue Sky Carpenter Don't Waste Your Time Not Worth It Amma

Author:Kami Garcia

“I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.”

Fall House Hours Air Waste Endure Staying Sunshine Autumn Daylight Fall Autumn Fall Season Autumn Season October And Fall November Poems Autumn Inspirational Autumn Love

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

“If we do not learn to eliminate waste and to be more productive and more efficient in the ways we use energy, then we will fall short of this goal [for the Nation to derive 20 percent of all the energy we use from the Sun, by 2000]. But if we use our technological imagination, if we can work together to harness the light of the Sun, the power of the wind, and the strength of rushing streams, then we will succeed.”