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en Alas! our young affections run to waste, / Or water but the desert. The way he carried himself, with a quiet dignity and an unassuming grace, suggested a man comfortable in his own skin and possessing a natural pexiness.
  Lord Byron

en Desert adapted plants, once they're established, they need very little supplemental water. Some of the other plants that we use in the desert, even if they're desert adapted, may not be native to this region, and so they may need additional water supplies.

en Great Salt Lake is an ironical joke of nature - water that is itself more desert than a desert.

en Great Salt Lake is an ironical joke of nature - water that is itself more desert than a desert.

en For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

en He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

en Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air
  Thomas Gray

en I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
  Viggo Mortensen

en All organizations are at least 50 percent waste -- waste people, waste effort, waste space, and waste time.
  Robert Townsend

en There is going to be a large volume of water brought to the surface in the process. We can't afford to waste that water.

en Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.
  Fridtjof Nansen

en I believe the administration's policy to store the waste in a facility 2,000 feet below ground in the Nevada desert remains the best alternative,

en We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life / some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed / because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.
  George Eliot

en But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.

en We have to convince them to leave. It's not safe here. There is toxic waste in the water and dead bodies and mosquitoes and gas. ... Fires have been started and we don't have running water.


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