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“When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.”

Wisdom Speak Sun Words Of Wisdom Waste Silent Candle

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.”

Thinking Way Want Real Lying Turns Sun Food Huge Waste Tiny Real Life Culinary Metals Pigs Cages Mud Pits Babe Hay Grate

Author:Morley Safer

“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

“When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.”

Eye Dies Grows Nature Secret Sun Blood Waste Logic Dawn Soil Vitality Halt Through The Eyes Allotments

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“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.”

World Humans Sometimes Night Song Sun Waste Bird Freezing Human Love

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.”

Earth Space Sun Fields Ten Waste Shots Proposal Rockets

Author:David R. Brower

“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 waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyses me- holds my mind in mortmain. To be alive is so incredible that all I do is to lie still and merely breathe- like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.”

Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man

“What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it. Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?”

Wells Young Sun Fool Waste Singing Sitting Wine Glasses Our Time Wine Glass

Author:Gerald Durrell

“However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will never even be offered life in the first place?”

Ifs Firsts Children Sun Waste Boring Complaining Our Time Dull Insult Unborn Barren Callous

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.”

Men Believe Made Whole Religion Universe Sun Sky Minutes Planets Revolution Waste Immense Globes Orbit

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“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.”

“...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