#scarcity

The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

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I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#all things #away #give #i #i think

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#resource #scarcity #waste

Part of the reason people could eat so well was that many foods that we now think of as delicacies were plenteous then. Lobsters bred in such abundance around Britain's coastline that they were fed to prisoners and orphans or ground up for fertilizer. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#lobsters #scarcity #trivia #diet

Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce. ↗

— Brian C. O'Connor

#hunter-gathers #information #nature #scarcity #storing

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#colours #elegant #feature #flight #flowers

Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers. ↗

— Cat Cora

#child #chronic #contributes #crisis #deaths

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. ↗

— David Ricardo

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If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons. ↗

— Seth Godin

#book #buy #going #good #good reason

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess. ↗

— Will Oldham

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