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If we don't, they won't understand what these precious things are that someday they will be resopnsible for protecting and improving.
Through history, people have gone back into their own pasts, sometimes to a precious time in their life, to their childhood, and often, the mind gravitates in the past to a moment of shame, some sin committed, some act of selfishness, an act of omission, of shallowness, the sin of anger, the sin of self-pity, trying to be a people-pleaser, a lack of courage.
It only makes what was wrong precious.
Far from being sources of agony and dread, hard choices are precious opportunities for us to celebrate what is special about the human condition, that the reasons that govern our choices as correct or incorrect sometimes run out, and it is here, in the space of hard choices, that we have the power to create reasons for ourselves to become the distinctive people that we are.
I asked Kerabai, "Why are you mortgaging your precious jewelry and taking a loan?"
Civic imagination and innovation and creativity are emerging from local ecosystems now and radiating outward, and this great innovation, this great wave of localism that's now arriving, and you see it in how people eat and work and share and buy and move and live their everyday lives, this isn't some precious parochialism, this isn't some retreat into insularity, no.
And we need all the help we can get from others, because we are stewards of a precious pale blue dot in a vast cosmos, a planet with 50 million centuries ahead of it.
Mary Oliver says in one of her poems, "Tell me, what is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Me, I intend to live passionately.
His parents think sometimes it's a precious commodity, so they'll keep it in a cupboard.
One of the most precious gifts that we had underwater is that we had WiFi, and for 31 days straight we were able to connect with the world in real time from the bottom of the sea and share all of these experiences.
There, he uncovered a hoard of precious artifacts, jewelry, and metalwork, including two diadems and a copper shield.
We don't realize how valuable and how precious these resources are, and yet, through our insouciance, we keep on destroying them.
And with this detailed information about the real quality of life in this part of the country, Imazon and other partners from government, business and civil society can work together to construct a development plan that will help really improve people's lives, while protecting that precious global asset that is the Amazon Rainforest.
As an Indian-born French national who lives in the United States, my hope is that we transcend this artificial North-South divide so that we can harness the collective ingenuity of innovators from around the world to cocreate frugal solutions that will improve the quality of life of everyone in the world, while preserving our precious planet.
That candle would burn for 15 minutes, 15 minutes of precious light, and then they would take it away, and I returned to darkness.
Now, it was this trip and probably that exact experience where I really began to feel like every photograph was precious, because all of a sudden in that moment, it was something I was forced to earn.
And even more precious than these objects are the relationships that we formed with Native Americans through the process of repatriation.
That I would spend my precious 15 minutes in front of an investor talking not just about my own company, but all the companies in the batch, was unprecedented.
I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels.
So thanks to these amazing devices, we have been able to gather precious information about tapir reproduction and social organization which are very important pieces of the puzzle when you're trying to develop those conservation strategies.
As the survivors fled the doomed city, they brought with them their precious books and their ancient traditions.
This is us trying to make sure that we don't lose precious samples.
But because of our work there, there's now a little corner of Cancun that is simply precious for being itself.
Community and policing: we've all lost that precious gift, and I call it relational equity.
But to understand how this precious metal became embedded in our planet to start with, we have to gaze upwards at the stars.
Billions of years later, we now extract this precious product by mining it, an expensive process that's compounded by gold's rarity.
How did this precious cache get into our phones, and can we reclaim it?
These can be divided into different groups, two of the most critical being rare earth elements and precious metals.
Perhaps then we will look back at Earth and see that that is one people instead of many and perhaps then we will look back at Earth, as we struggle to survive on Mars, and realize how precious the home planet is.
That this precious resource called water is something we all have to share.
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