"In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But in so far as they consume the fuel resources of the globe they are very different. The one is like spending the interest on a legacy, and the other is like spending the legacy itself. ... [There is] a still hardly recognised coming energy problem."

-- Frederick Soddy

#Running Quotes #Nature Quotes #Water Quotes

“There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.”
“I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.”
“Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.”
“Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues.”
“To learn to read is to light a fire.”
“Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.”
“Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point to the fulfillment of what want, the answer to every longing--the type of perfect humanity, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.”

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