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.
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
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.
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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.
Billboards Quotes
The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff.
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...
You watch enough TV, and very soon the inside of your head has become a vast, arid plain, across which you cannot detect the passage of a thought.
Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too...
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For related environmental themes, see Billboards quotes on cluttered landscapes, and Body quotes on how surroundings affect us physically.
