“Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.” HumansEarthWaterLossGrowingChangedPeriodsDemandDiversityFuelHuman HistoryEcosystemsFiberIrreversibleTimberFresh WaterDiversity Of Life Author:Gary Larson
“The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me, you're doing this and that. I don't really pay that much attention so long as we have a 'W' in that column; that's the kind of thing that makes me really happy. It blows all stats out of the water.” PeopleKindLongImportantWinningWaterLossRoomsPayAttentionRecordsImportant ThingsBlowColumnsReally HappyLockersLocker Room Author:Dhani Jones
“Dieting is long-haul. Many rapid weight loss programs actually only squeeze the water out of you. Just like a wet sponge. But a good dieter maintains his or her grip on that sponge, not letting it soak up water again.” LongWaterLossProgramWeightWetRapidsWeight LossDietingSpongesHaulLong Haul Book:Your Weight and You Source: Your Weight and You
“Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.” WaterLossSeaDespairRainDisasterScalesWeatherMistLarge Scale Author:Mary Boykin Chesnut
“Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to discover a haunted world shivering with loss and love, regret and sorrow, where the spirit world is as real as the human. I was sucked into it with the very first sentence and when I left, it was with a feeling of immense reluctance.” WorldFirstsHumansRealCharacterFeelingsSpiritReadingLeftWaterLossPowerfulNovelRegretSorrowAnd LoveSentencesBeachMemorablePoolImmenseMonkeysEnteringMoodyReluctanceEmeraldsSpirit WorldMemorable Characters Author:Anita Rau Badami
“On the 1st of August, 1774, I endeavoured to extract air from mercurius calcinates per se [mercury oxide]; and I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. … I admitted water to it [the extracted air], and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprized me more than I can well express, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame… I was utterly at a loss how to account for it.” WellsMeanI CanFoundWaterLossAirAccountsFlamesCandleBurnedLensesAugustVigorousMercury Author:J. B. Priestley
“Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.” WorldHopeWaterLossEmptyShipsIslandsHorizon Book:Oblique light Source: Oblique light
“Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.” IfsFeelsLooksLittlesLongHardDoneJobsEasyWaterCan DoWorkLossResultsEffortExcellenceYieldSpellsDucksStrainYou Can Do ItVitalityFatigueWork DoneOutput Author:B. C. Forbes
“This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own.” MenShouldTodayEarthLyingWaterLossBehindsAirSurvivalShould HaveAbsolutesSpeciesNotionIncludingDisasterHolesForestsWelfareDestroyingLayersThreateningConquestDominionChaoticAir And WaterOzonePower Of NatureOzone Layer Author:Riane Eisler
“Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for shipping companies, marinas and other businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water withdrawals for expanding suburbs. "A lot of people just can't believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes," said Sarah Nerenberg, a water engineer with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, which conducted the study on shortages.” PeopleYearsBelieveMaySaidRunningWaterLossLevelsCompanyMillionsStudyDollarsEnvironmentalPlanningLakesRegionsFourthEngineersExpandingRestrictionSuburbsShortageWithdrawalIllinoisShippingGreat LakesFourth Year Author:Timothy Egan
“When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.” PeopleIdeasWholeWould BeWaterLossDyingColdTasksRussiaDevelopingPostsDiscussionSufficientJust OneSovietPreservationObjectionsSoviet RussiaCold WaterDevastating Loss Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn