"Agricultural demand for water - probably the largest threat to freshwater species - continues to increase. ... Meanwhile, threats to terrestrial biodiversity - primarily the conversion of habitat to agricultural uses ... - have not diminished."

-- Indur M. Goklany

#Water Quotes #Habitat Quotes #Use Quotes

“The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that youll have little in the future.”
“We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.”
“Glibness will get your anywhere.”
“When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.”
“The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.”
“When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.”
“I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way”
“I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time.”

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