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wrecking

«I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...»
«It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life -- for 8 billion or more people -- without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.»
«An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.»
«I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.»
«The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.»
«The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life -and one is as good as the other.»
«Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy»
«Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.»
«Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven»
«My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked»

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