Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that… — Bernal Diaz del Castillo Copy Share Image
So, been attacked by any vampires yet?" "Not one." "Zombies? Giant spiders? Water monsters?" It's been really quiet on the supernatural front"… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
The Safe Drinking Water Act was passed in 1974 after tests discovered carcinogens, lead and dangerous bacteria flowing from faucets in New… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
I like to wear my hair up in a loose ponytail with a silk scrunchie on my days off and when I… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
A fish is free as long as it stays in the water. If it suddenly declares that it wants its freedom to… — Gigi Graham Copy Share Image
Another agricultural trend of growing concern is the increased nutrient content of coastal waters resulting from fertilizer runoff in agricultural regions. Augmented… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,is not… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
A house isn't really understandable until it settles into the site: until it's built, furnished and lived in for four or five… — Jaquelin T. Robertson Copy Share Image
You should do whatever feels right in your deepest heart. Feel deep as consciousness, open as water, now, and feel how to… — David Deida Copy Share Image
I was doing science," Giddon said. "He threw a bean." "I was testing the impact of a bean upon water," Bann said.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is,… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give… — Thomas Noon Talfourd Copy Share Image
Companies could step up to the plate time and time again and help out by cleaning up a groundwater system that's contaminated,… — Erin Brockovich Copy Share Image
Every drop of water in an ocean contains the flavor of the whole ocean. So too, every moment in time contains the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I saw a charity appeal in the Guardian the other day, and it read "Little Zuki has to walk 13 miles a… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
In the media, waterboarding is called 'simulated drowning,' but that's a misnomer. It does not simulate drowning, as the lungs are actually… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When 'Destroyer' was first released, we got a strong backlash from our hardcore fans. After six months, the album was dead in… — Peter Criss Copy Share Image
In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment… — John Green Copy Share Image
Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I set the coffee aside and got a cup of water instead. I could never see why people drank that stuff. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
What's happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it's polluted in some… — Greg MacGillivray Copy Share Image
We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first rule (of investing) for me is don't have rules. You find one amazing investment and that's all that matters. If… — Mark Pincus Copy Share Image
