Ecology Quote by Rebecca Solnit

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water…

— Terry Goodkind

Gold is not less but more rational than paper money. Money holds value so long as it is in limited supply; gold will always…

— William E. Rees

Gold actually has properties - you can use gold for all sorts of things. People value gold for the metal. Nobody values bitcoin for…

— Peter Schiff

Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as…

— Christopher Columbus

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

— David Ricardo

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

— Pindar

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour…

— David Ricardo

Among these treasures of our land is water-fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used-but it can…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover,…

— Henry Hazlitt

Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely…

— Henry Ford

For more than two thousand years gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold is honest…

— Hans F. Sennholz