Quote by Jack Handey
Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but when I told that story around the campfire, nobody got scared. – Jack Handey

Other quotes by Jack Handey

What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk? – Jack Handey

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Alcohol
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As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. – Jack Handey

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Fishing
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If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn’t open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming. – Jack Handey

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Skydiving
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Other Quotes from
Environment
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Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. – David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978

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Environment

A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot. – Author Unknown

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Environment

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. – Rene Dubos, Mirage of Health, 1959

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Environment

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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Environment

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Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places. – Author Unknown

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Age
[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer. – Harry Emerson Fosdick, On Being a Real Person

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Self-Discovery

Were not going to baby sit a civil war. – Barack Obama

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War

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. Thats what poetry does. – Allen Ginsberg

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Poetry