#recycling

It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in the yard Pa was sorting, counting, the empty bottles he would sell back: the bottles going clink clink as Pa stuck them in the sack. The fowls were fluffing in the dust and sun: that crook-neck white pullet Mumma said she would hit on the head if only she had the courage to; but she hadn't. ↗

— Patrick White

#children #fathers #fowls #mothers #recycling

The paradox of life lies exactly in this: its resources are finite, but it itself is endless. Such a contradictory state of affairs is feasible only because the resources accessible to life can be used over and over again. ↗

— I.I. Gitelson

#recycling #science #life

The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#imposed #kids #recycling

My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling. ↗

— John McCarthy

#attending #energy #hobby #meetings #more

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#disposable #easier #even #fix #give

On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It's absolutely insane. We've been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We're being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#absolutely #after #along #back #been

Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material. ↗

— Ed Pastor

#another #barcelona #chance #country #deny

It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially. ↗

— Andrew Dost

#conscious #eating #environmentally #everything #fair

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#biological #calling #chemical #denser #natural

Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#doing #environment #gay #gay movement #just