Mark Kurlansky quote: "One of humankind's most enduring misconceptions is that of nature's bounty... the belief that nature is such a powerful force that it is indestructible."

Examining the oyster is an accessible way to take on the issue of urban development. Even though I'm...
MARK KURLANSKY

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, a...
MARK KURLANSKY

An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing.
MARK

I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'...
MARK BILLINGHAM

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
MARK TWAIN

I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always ...
MARK SHRIVER

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
MARK TWAIN

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha...
MARK TWAIN

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
MARK SKOUSEN

The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Flori...
MARK FOLEY

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
MARK TWAIN

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ...
MARK TWAIN

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
MARK TWAIN

I never let schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
MARK TWAIN

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
MARK TWAIN

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed rig...
MARK TWAIN

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
MARK TWAIN

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
MARK TWAIN

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here firs...
MARK TWAIN

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one...
MARK TWAIN

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
MARK TWAIN

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
MARK TWAIN

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of ti...
MARK TWAIN

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
MARK TWAIN

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
MARK TWAIN

The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
MARK TWAIN

When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudony...
MARK ZUCKERBERG

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
MARK TWAIN

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
MARK TWAIN

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
MARK TWAIN

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos...
MARK WARNER

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
MARK TWAIN

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
MARK TWAIN

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside...
MARK TWAIN

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN

Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
MARK TWAIN

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
MARK TWAIN

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAIN

All generalizations are false, including this one.
MARK TWAIN

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN

I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.
MARK ZUCKERBERG

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba...
MARK TWAIN

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAIN

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN

There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci...
MARK VONNEGUT

There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan...
MARK ZANDI

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we sp...
MARK PAGEL

I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term t...
MARK RONSON

Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit...
MARK FRAUENFELDER

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
MARK TWAIN

I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
MARK GATISS

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ...
MARK MCKINNON

If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
MARK TWAIN

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
MARK ZUCKERBERG

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce...
MARK HOPKINS

Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it...
MARK HAMILL

What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!
MARK MCKINNEY

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
MARK EDWARDS

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...
MARK TWAIN

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...
MARK TWAIN

When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu...
MARK TWAIN

The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly...
MARK TWAIN

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
MARK TWAIN

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
MARK TWAIN

The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes...
MARK TWAIN

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w...
MARK TWAIN

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff...
MARK TWAIN

Say the report is exaggerated.
MARK TWAIN

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ...
MARK TWAIN

To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
MARK TWAIN

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ...
MARK TWAIN

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t...
MARK TWAIN

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st...
MARK TWAIN

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi...
MARK TWAIN

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to...
MARK TWAIN

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ...
MARK TWAIN

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN

All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people...
MARK TWAIN

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find...
MARK TWAIN

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood...
MARK TWAIN

As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
MARK TWAIN

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshol...
MARK TWAIN

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than...
MARK TWAIN

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without burst...
MARK TWAIN

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
MARK TWAIN

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
MARK TWAIN

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...
MARK TWAIN

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ...
MARK TWAIN

All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'pay...
MARK SKOUSEN

Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset ...
MARK GATISS

I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f...
MARK RUFFALO

There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t...
MARK ZANDI

I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you.
MARK MCKINNEY

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ...
MARK ZANDI

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t...
MARK WAHLBERG

There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the ...
MARK GODDARD

I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Los...
MARK GODDARD

I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry abou...
MARK RONSON

Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin...
MARK KELLY

I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t...
MARK FROST

We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunit...
MARK RUTTE

We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-s...
MARK RUTTE

We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to...
MARK ZUCKERBERG

Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can affor...
MARK ZANDI

The best person to get something done is a busy person.
MARK BURNETT

The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good...
MARK STEYN

I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres...
MARK MCKINNON

Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we shoul...
MARK MCKINNON

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, t...
MARK HOPPUS

The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,...
MARK ZANDI

In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not tryi...
MARK WAHLBERG

When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting th...
MARK WATERS

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
MARK TWAIN

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal...
MARK TWAIN

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired
MARK TWAIN

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
MARK TWAIN

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
MARK TWAIN

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting...
MARK TWAIN

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
MARK TWAIN

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
MARK TWAIN

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse...
MARK TWAIN

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would ...
MARK TWAIN

If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don'...
MARK FUHRMAN

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
MARK TWAIN

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things tha...
MARK TWAIN

Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled
MARK TWAIN

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"
MARK TWAIN

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was rea...
MARK RUFFALO

Distance lends enchantment to the view
MARK TWAIN

Be good and you will be lonesome.
MARK TWAIN

Chastity - you can carry it too far
MARK TWAIN

The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline ...
MARK RUSSELL

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
MARK TWAIN

Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it...
MARK TWAIN

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
MARK TWAIN

Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshel...
MARK FRAUENFELDER

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk...
MARK BILLINGHAM

China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main ...
MARK CARWARDINE

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
MARK TWAIN

There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many...
MARK TWAIN

Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
MARK TWAIN

Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, out...
MARK FROST

I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and lookin...
MARK TWAIN

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half ...
MARK EDWARDS

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
MARK RUTHERFORD

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would...
MARK TWAIN

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati...
MARK TWAIN

Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material...
MARK TWAIN

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no...
MARK TWAIN

There is a great deal of human nature in people.
MARK TWAIN

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
MARK TWAIN

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
MARK TWAIN

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monot...
MARK TWAIN

Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat...
MARK TWAIN

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts th...
MARK TWAIN

Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income...
MARK ZANDI

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe...
MARK KENNEDY

There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles.
MARK ZUPAN

Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f...
MARK LAWRENCE

Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement,...
MARK TWAIN

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of t...
MARK TWAIN

I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. ...
MARK UDALL

I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things th...
MARK HADDON

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
MARK TWAIN

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
MARK TWAIN

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
MARK TWAIN

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
MARK RUTTE

He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magi...
MARK RYDELL

I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it an...
MARK MCGWIRE

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover th...
MARK TWAIN

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
MARK TWAIN

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so,...
MARK TWAIN

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to...
MARK TWAIN

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will...
MARK MCCORMACK

I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treas...
MARK TWAIN

We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”
Snorri shook his head. “A...
MARK LAWRENCE

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich...
MARK TWAIN

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide i...
MARK TWAIN

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us...
MARK TWAIN

Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
MARK TWAIN

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
MARK TWAIN

I do not like work even when someone else does it.
MARK TWAIN

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not oblig...
MARK TWAIN

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
MARK TWAIN

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
MARK TWAIN

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
MARK TWAIN

We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether th...
MARK TWAIN

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True ...
MARK TWAIN

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
MARK TWAIN

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
MARK TWAIN

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
MARK TWAIN

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the hum...
MARK TWAIN

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
MARK TWAIN

One of humankind's most enduring misconceptions is that of nature's bounty... the belief that nature is such a powerful force that it is indestructible.

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One of humankind's most enduring misconceptions is that of nature's bounty... the belief that nature is such a powerful force that it is indestructible.

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