"Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more"

-- George Monbiot

#Survival Quotes #Chance Quotes #Resources Quotes

“On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other.”
“I listen to a variety of stuff on my iPod: Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Public Enemy, Foo Fighters, anything that gets my adrenalin flowing.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't”
“It was true what Jim said, this wasnâ€™t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come then, to the island they would share. One day surely the wars would end, and Jim would come home, if only to lie broken in MacMurroughâ€™s arms, he would come to his island home. And MacMurrough would have it built for him, brick by brick, washed by the rain and the reckless sea. In the living stream theyâ€™d swim a season. For maybe it was true that no man is an island: but he believed that two very well might be.”
“Rin slept inside the oakâ€™s thought. Its own memories of weather and growth continued to hum, and like a pond, its stillness reflected back herself.”
“The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.”
“I just liked to play football, no matter what the position.”
“Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.”

Source : Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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