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“Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.”

Ifs Way Believe Attitude Broken Waste Rivers Bottom Desert Defence Prairie Plentiful Rattlesnakes

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.”

People Should Use Community Company Waste Majors Rivers Excuse Oil Chemicals Toxic No Excuses Dump Eco Spades Pipeline Sewage Toxic Waste Refinery

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“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.”

“A Warder once told me Trollocs call the Aiel Waste 'the Dying Ground.' I mean to make them give that name to the Two Rivers.”

Giving Mean Two Names Dying Waste Rivers

Book:The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'

“There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason unable to fish, we look for an excuse to go in, and waste the tackle dealer's time.”

Looks May Two Reason Sea Waste Rivers Fishes Excuse Boat Shops Lakes Fishing Dealer Platonic

Author:Arthur Ransome

“While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain things now made perfect sense; Moon River didn't sound so syrupy, mistletoe wasn't such a bad idea, and perhaps dating was not such a frivolous waste of time after all.”

Made Ideas Night Certain Sound Perfect Happened Moon Waste Rivers Dating Conclusion Wasting Time Bad Ideas Frivolous Fathom Mistletoe

Author:E. A. Bucchianeri

“An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries danger with it. From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon and grime settle over the people and shroud the Nation's cities each year. From towns, factories, and stockyards, wastes pollute our rivers and streams, endangering the waters we drink and use.”

“Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep.”

Life Is Waste Flow Rivers Woe

Book:Imogen: And Other Poems

Source: Imogen: And Other Poems

“Eighty percent of global warming is the result of man's wrongful use of the resources of the planet and the dumping of millions upon millions of tons of nuclear and other waste in the world, creating great toxic areas all over our skies, our oceans, our rivers, and the earth.”

Men World Use Earth Results Millions Sky Planets Waste Ocean Creating Percent Resources Areas Rivers Nuclear Global Warming Toxic Eighty

Author:Benjamin Creme

“It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes from the Federal Triangle. I have a sewer map, and on it you can see the pipe from which congressional wastes empty into the river that then flows through the black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. It is very expensive to do anything about the river, but somebody's working on it.”

Turns Black Waste Flow Rivers Empty Metaphor Expensive Neighborhood Maps Pipe Dickens Triangles Sewers Sewage

Author:Robert Hass

“Seasons may change winter to spring, but I love you until the end of time Come what may, come what may, I will love you until my dying day Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace Suddenly my life doesn’t seem such a waste, it all revolves around you. And there’s no mountain too high no river too wide Sing out this song and I’ll be there by your side Storm clouds may gather and stars may collide But I love you until the end of time”

“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.”

Men Way Mind Whole Moving Stars Existence Worry Growing Tree Movement Waste Bird Rivers Victim Dancing Fallen Relaxation Relaxed Haste No Worries

Author:Rajneesh