Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikola Tesla

If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. The heat of the sun's rays represents an immense amount of energy vastly in excess of waterpower...The sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

Richard Dawkins

Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.

Bible Bible

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Mark Ritchie

So it turns out an only private-land preserve wasn't going to be able to meet legal (standards). The only thing that seems to work is a combination of public and private lands.

George Grace

One thing we've got a lot of, ... is land.

Mark Roberts

Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.

Tony Smith

Whenever you look at it in its entirety, you could be losing all the land to a developer.

Richard Zuschlag

We won't go into the Superdome landing zone until security is restored.

Dieter Rams

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

Steve Black

If a person wants to keep their land from ever going into urban development, they get a conservation easement,

Chris Farley

I live in a van, down by the river!

Chris Farley

First off I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river.

Deng Xiaoping

Cross the river by feeling for stones.

Edgar Allan Poe

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!

Deepak Chopra

Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?

Minna Antrim

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

David Giuntoli

We've been everywhere around Northwest. I was biking until the clouds came. We'll go in the woods, we'll go up and down the river. I love the woods in Sandy, but it's an hour away, so I don't love that.

David R. Brower

You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.

David R. Brower

Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning.