Famous quotes containing the words population and/or increased:
“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)