Famous quotes containing the words waste and/or materials:
“Beside a stream, don’t waste water; even in a forest, don’t waste fire wood.”
—Chinese proverb.
“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)