"Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves."

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Source : Charles Bowden (1977). “Killing the Hidden Waters”, p.7, University of Texas Press

#Long Quotes #Water Quotes #Environmental Quotes

“In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.”

Source : Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.39, A&C Black
“I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.”
“Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.”
“The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay the better you get to know the prospect, and the more you will be trusted.”
“Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.”
“The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.”
“We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.”

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