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Quotes About Erosion

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.
~ William Hogarth
Much rain wears the marble.
~ William Shakespeare
Time is not kind to everything.
~ Robbie Robertson
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.
~ Horace
You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.
~ Sebastian Faulks
Sá»± si mê c?a Ä'àn ông tàn l?i nhanh hÆ¡n nhan s?c Ä'àn bà
~ Shan Sa
everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping those away ...
~ John Geddes
The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.
~ Eliot Coleman
Every hour and a half, Louisiana sheds another football field's worth of land.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
Since the 1930s, Louisiana has shrunk by more than two thousand square miles.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
within the next fifty years or so "all coral reefs will cease to grow and start to dissolve.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man—the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories—will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man—the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories—will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
all that we consider to be the great works of man - the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories - will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
A paper published in Nature by the former head of the One Tree Island Research Station, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, predicted that if current trends continue, then by around 2050 visitors to the Great Barrier Reef will arrive to find "rapidly eroding rubble banks.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man -- the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories -- will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
The truth is that our freedoms are being subtly eroded in an era where emotion and sentiment are prized above reason and rationality.
~ Kemi Badenoch
All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.
~ John Stossel
All over America, the membrane between adulthood and childhood had been eroding, the fantastic and and the personal melding into one, adult worries receding into a pink childhood haze.
~ Gary Shteyngart
The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
~ Magnus Larsson
It's said that history inevitably marches toward democracy, but it only leaves the possibility of democracy, and the constant threat that it would be eroded by big money.
~ Zephyr Teachout
I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.
~ Sara Sheridan
Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.
~ Daniel J. Solove
Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.
~ Margaret Atwood