Quotes About Desertification

#1. Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

Roger Scruton

#2. It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English.

Stephanie Mills

#3. Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.

Gerald Durrell

#4. Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane Katrina's devastation in New Orleans.

Jamais Cascio

#5. Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.

Amy Goodman

#6. We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

Gunter Grass

#7. It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of the Pashtuns, where desertification proceeds at a steady, implacable crawl even in the consciences and intellects of men.

Yasmina Khadra

#8. What's the point in worrying about the future? Who says there will even be a future? What happens if you die tomorrow and all you ever did was sit in maths classes and play the clarinet and moan about your family? What good is the future to you then?

Dawn O'Porter

#9. On at least four separate occasions and recorded in the four Gospels the Lord Jesus called His disciples to deny their soul life, deliver it to death, and then to follow Him.

Watchman Nee

#10. Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

Gary Owen

#11. They recognize me. Of course they recognize me. My face is uncovered and I'm standing here outside of District 12 pointing an arrow at them. Who else would I be?

Suzanne Collins

#12. It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#13. I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

Jane Goodall

#14. Dedication and enthusiams are the greatest rewards for learning

Isabel Ramos

#15. Thanks. I was looking for" - he pulled a scrap of paper from his pocket - "Ms. Jeffries. She teaches Shakespeare, poor woman. Do you know where I can find her?" Cynda pointed to Anna right as she stood to leave. "Oh, sorry. I didn't realize.

Tracy Ewens

#16. I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

Bo Jackson

#17. I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.

Amish Tripathi

#18. If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#19. There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

John Stuart Mill

#20. A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#21. Nosoi?" Percy planted his feet in a fighting stance. "You know, I keep thinking, I have now killed every single thing in Greek mythology. But the list never seems to end."
"You haven't killed me yet," I noted.
"Don't tempt me.

Rick Riordan

#22. Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.

Henry Selick