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“It's an appreciation for life generally, every bit of life, the smallest creature that lives in the intestines of termites that make termite life possible - to the leaves that turn out oxygen and grab carbon dioxide and with water make simple sugars that feed much of the world. I mean, these are everyday miracles.”

World Mean Turns Bits Water Simple Creatures Miracle Everyday Appreciation Sugar Smallest Carbon Oxygen Carbon Dioxide Intestines

Author:Sylvia Earle

“The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen is the more essential property of water.”

Mind Persons Important Body Water Society Essentials Property Arguing Oxygen Mind And Body Hydrogen

Book:The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.”

Humans Water Essentials Dignity Human Life Oxygen Unbroken Retention

Book:Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

“Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.”

Body Water Blood Profit Oxygen

Author:James C. Collins

“Apart from the obvious advantages of having ice to melt, filter, then drink, you can also break apart the water's hydrogen from its oxygen. Use the hydrogen and some of the oxygen as active ingredients in rocket fuel and keep the rest of the oxygen for breathing. And in your spare time between space missions, you can always go ice skating on the frozen lake created with the extracted water.”

Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.”

Joy Water Imagination White Environmental Thrones Oxygen Rushing Hydrogen Elementals Glaciers Rushing Water

Book:Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

Source: Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

“Another agricultural trend of growing concern is the increased nutrient content of coastal waters resulting from fertilizer runoff in agricultural regions. Augmented by urban sewage discharge in some situations, this results in huge algal blooms, which, as they die and decay, deplete the oxygen content in the water, leading to the death of the fish.”

Source: Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

“There is no theory that would guide us through interplantary space to another world even if we could control our departure from the earth; there is no means of carrying the large amount oxygen, water, and food that would be necessary for such a long journey; and there is not known way of easing our ether ship down on the surface of another world, if we could get there.”

Ifs World Way Mean Long Would Be Earth Water Space Known Journey Theory Amount Surface Guides Ships Aviation Predictions Oxygen Departure Another World Long Journey

Author:Forest Ray Moulton

“Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water.”? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?”

Ifs Thinking Should Wells Two Shows Values Water Can Do Share Conversation Prove Evidence Argument Logic Importance Appeals Logical What If Oxygen Hydrogen Logical Arguments

Author:Sam Harris

“Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water.”

Believe Important Water Sun Distance Mars Oxygen Orbit Bushism Canals

Author:Dan Quayle

“If your fire begins to flame, don't spray water on it, which most people do. Instead, just close your dampers and the fire will go out because fire must have oxygen.”

People Ifs Water Fire Flames Oxygen Spray

Author:Johnny Trigg