World Resources

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or resources:

    “The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,—those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)