“(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation.” HumansEarthProcessWaterCommonGenerationsAirHabitPeriodsBenefitsResourcesDestructionDrinkingTechniqueLandscapeStreamsDividedPollutionFillingChokeHabitatDepositsDrinking WaterVegetation Author:Lewis Mumford
“Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.” WaterShallowChokeToo DeepShallow Water Author:Edie Brickell
“I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.” KnowsDoeBodyRunningOpportunityGivenSidesWaterMy OwnKnow HowDown AndGolfIceScoreVeinsTemperatureChokeBoilingSplintersBody TemperatureIce WaterBoiling Point Author:John Updike
“The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.” WaterAirBreathingShantaramChokeBombayHumidityAmphibians Book:Shantaram: A Novel Source: Shantaram: A Novel