"The trouble with water-and there is trouble with water-is that they're not making any more of it. They're not making any less, mind, but no more either. There is the same amount of water in the planet now as there was in prehistoric times."

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Source : Marq De Villiers (2001). “Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Marq de Villiers

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“Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.”
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Source : Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin
“The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been empty-handed the longest, and if someone appears elsewhere whose need is greater it leaves its old channel and moves toward him. Our generosity may leave us empty, but our emptiness then pulls gently at the whole until the thing in motion returns to replenish us. Social nature abhors a vacuum.”

Source : Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.29, Vintage
“I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.”
“You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl.”
“Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .”
“There is no safer. Thereâ€™s not even safe, never has been.”
“Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?”

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