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“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”

“Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. Between two and three there is a jump. In the case of quantity, there is no such jump; and because jump is missing in the world of quantity, it is impossible for any quantity to be exact. You can have exactly three tomatoes. You can never have exactly three gallons of water. Always quantity is approximate.”

World Mean Two Three Next Water Numbers Cases Impossible Missing Products Quantity Accurate Counting Measurement Tomatoes Gallons Discontinuity Integers

Author:Gregory Bateson

“Drink a bottle of French water and then step into the shower for ten minutes and you've just received the exposure equivalent of drinking a half gallon of tap water. We enjoy the most intimate of relationships with our public drinking water, whether we want to or not.”

Want Enjoy Water Half Steps Minutes Drink Ten Drinking Environmental Intimate Bottles Showers Exposure Drinking Water Gallons Tap Water

Book:Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

Source: Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

“When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”

World Running Water Simple Poor Demand India Blame Farmers Consumerism Pumps Overconsumption Gasoline Gallons

Author:Richard J. Foster

“When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.”

Men God Water Drink Gallons

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.”

Ifs Language Given Water Simple Secret Clear Mysterious Carrie Thirst Buckets Gallons

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading.”

Reason Reading Water Five Dying Prison Loser Thirst Librarian Drank Buckets Gallons

Author:Gary Paulsen