"One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and its satellites-everywhere that the command economy operated, with its callous disregard for anything but narrow-focused abstract principle-could be forgiven for thinking that the Apocalypse was no longer imminent but in full cry. There's hardly a river, stream, or brook that isn't contaminated with the runoff from human misuse, whether industrial effluents, agricultural pesticides and herbicides, or worse."

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Source : Marq De Villiers (2001). “Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Marq de Villiers

#Thinking Quotes #Europe Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“We are all pencils in the hand of God.”
“Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn't know it.”
“Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.”
“When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.”

Source : "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.
“Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.”
“I hate to be categorized.”
“When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.”
“I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be,”

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