- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arid Quotes
Arid quotes here span physical landscapes, from billboards creating a sterile environment to savanna systems that can tip into drought, alongside a more abstract complaint that mathematics gets mistaken for an arid, lifeless science. One line likens rebellion without truth to spring arriving in a bleak, arid desert, tying the word to emotional as well as literal dryness. Together these quotes treat aridity as both an ecological fact and a useful metaphor.
These arid quotes move between literal desert imagery and metaphor, a pairing also found in Desert quotes about stark, unforgiving places.
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- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020