Basin Quotes

43 quotes by 41 authors

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day. — Paul Cezanne
Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within… — George Eliot
Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of… — Frances Ford Seymour
Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people, as Isaiah cries, we have… — Justin Martyr
Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth.… — Bill McKibben
Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands,… — Thomas Jefferson
The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to… — George Eliot
But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline ribs all in parallel rows… — Sallie Tisdale
If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed, and there will be nothing… — Mark Lynas
It's true. We're really working hard to make Incline Lake a reality, but that doesn't mean that we're not focused on other projects to improve… — Rex Norman
Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs… — Peter Elbow
I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a… — Charles Lyell
It was a mind-blowing experience, it really was-absolutely an awesome thing. . . . As I got to the top I released a bag of… — Mike Melvill
The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far… — James Lovelock
It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates,… — Penelope Hobhouse
Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains… — Hudson Stuck
The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can… — William O. Douglas
The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of the entire Nile… — Jon Pareles

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