“We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.” MeanEnoughEarthPastScienceHeavenWaterToo MuchFieldsMaterialsElementsNormalSpringRainRelationForestsProportionMaintainingDewMeadowsPermanencePastures Book:So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh Source: So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh
“We can use doubt to self analyze. A measure of doubt can help us to attain self-honesty. But, like too much water, too much doubt will also destroy us.” SelfHelpingUseWaterDoubtToo MuchHonesty Book:How to Wish Source: How to Wish
“Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?” Has BeensWaterBrainCompanyToo MuchLonelinessPursuitIslandsEmptinessThirstSailor Author:Margaret Atwood
“In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.” IfsThinkingBelieveStillsPainWaterFireToo MuchEventsOughtCostPreservesScepticism Author:David Hume
“To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.” ShouldWellsWaterToo MuchObjectsDependsLuckWorkersBottomAidsNeverthelessGood LuckStirringMuddySubmerged Author:Santiago Ramon y Cajal
“Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]” DiesWaterToo MuchModernPoetInk Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Long distance hiking is not a vacation, it's too long for that. It's not recreation, too much toil and pain involved. It is, we decide, a way of life, a very simplified Spartan way of living ... life on the move ... heavy packs, sweating brow; they make you appreciate warm sunshine, companionship, cool water. The best way to appreciate these things that are precious and important in life it is take them away.” WayLongImportantPainMovingWaterWalksToo MuchJourneyInvolvedWalkingAppreciateDistanceHeavyWarmBest WayWanderLive LifeSunshineVacationHikingPacksCompanionshipToilTrekkingBrowsRecreationStrollingLong DistanceSaunteringSweatingCool Water Author:Cindy Ross
“Generally, it's not good to be engaged directly with the political system unless you are qualified. It`s a very depressing business, the way politics works. You get stuck into it, but then, at some point, you have to walk away. I had to walk away, because it's like this dark, black energy void. There are some people who have dedicated their lives to living in that energy void, but I can't do it. I just can't go there. It feels like you're treading water too much when you do. It's a crazy thing.” PeopleWayFeelsI CanPoliticalEnergyBlackWaterDarkWalksToo MuchCrazyLike YouStuckEngagedDedicatedVoidDepressingQualifiedPolitical SystemsCrazy ThingsTreadingVery DepressingTreading Water Author:Thom Yorke