Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 833 |
| AUTHOR: | Don Marquis (1878–1937) |
| QUOTATION: | what man calls civilization always results in deserts man is never on the square he uses up the fat and greenery of the earth each generation wastes a little more of the future with greed and lust for riches |
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| SUBJECTS: | Greed |