“The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.”
Chapter 2, Page 6 http://books.google.com/books?id=5hR_i1rNzAYC&q=%22The+most+alarming+of+all+man's+assaults+upon+the+environment+is+the+contamination+of+air+earth+rivers+and+sea+with+dangerous+and+even+lethal+materials%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage <br class="br">Silent Spring (1962)
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“All earth’s full rivers can not fill
The sea that drinking thirsteth still.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet
By the Sea; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); Old and New, Volume 5 (1872), p. 169.
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1230) Persian Sufi poet
"All Pervading Consciousness"
Context: Yet what are seas and what is air? For all
Is God, and but a talisman are heaven and earth
To veil Divinity. For heaven and earth,
Did He not permeate them, were but names;
Know then, that both this visible world and that
Which unseen is, alike are God Himself,
Naught is, save God: and all that is, is God.
Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) austrian philosopher and inventor
Implosion Magazine, No. 96, p. 4. (Callum Coats: Energy Evolution (2000))
Implosion Magazine
Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer
Odysseus, Book XI, line 846
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Jack Paar (1918–2004) American author, radio and television comedian and talk show host
My Saber is Bent http://books.google.com/books?id=MO-mqER9TrsC&q=%22Now+that+man+can+fly+through+the+air+like+a+bird%22+%22and+swim+in+the+sea+like+a+fish+wouldn't+it+be+wonderful+if+he+could+just+walk+the+earth+like+a+man%22&pg=PA79#v=onepage (1961)
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
“The word of man is the most durable of all material.”
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
Vol. 2, Ch. 25, sect. 298
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“ALL Rivers go to the Sea, but none return from it.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1707)
Context: ALL Rivers go to the Sea, but none return from it. Xerxes wept when he beheld his Army, to consider that in less than a Hundred Years they would be all Dead. Anacreon was' Choakt with a Grape-stone, and violent Joy Kills as well as violent Grief. There is nothing in this World constant but Inconstancy; yet Plato thought that if Virtue would appear to the World in her own native Dress, all Men would be Enamoured with her. But now since Interest governs the World, and Men neglect the Golden Mean, Jupiter himself, if he came on the Earth would be Despised, unless it were as he did to Danae in a Golden Shower. For Men nowadays Worship the Rising Sun, and not the Setting.