"Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment."

-- Jamais Cascio

#Thinking Quotes #Agriculture Quotes #Water Quotes

“[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.”
“History, that is to be written tomorrow ...to be read by our children ... to serve as their guide is written in our actions today. A greater call to responsibility I have not known.”
“I just do my act. If people in England don't get my joke I make fun of myself for telling it.”
“I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.”

Source : Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.117, Simon and Schuster
“This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.”
“Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.”

Source : Henry Watson Fowler (1994). “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions
“A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time.”
“If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual.”

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