#water

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort. ↗

— Frank Langella

#distrust #i #i think #most #reasons

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#about #also #been #cabin #connects

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth. ↗

— Gary Larson

#changed #comparable #demands #diversity #earth

I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#day #days #fast #fruit #glasses

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#close #forests #i #jobs #know

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#down #fit #fool #free #freedom

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. ↗

— Lucretius

#any #because #delectable #free #gaze

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles. ↗

— Lucretius

#gaze #high #high seas #land #lashing

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. ↗

— Lucretius

#dropping #fall #stone #water #wears

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. ↗

— George MacDonald

#deep #froth #inch #live #mud