With nine degrees of warming computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half severely curtailing food production.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that fear has no power and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

Without peace all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered poverty vanished war eliminated.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

Al Gore the former vice-president of the United States lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!

The past itself as historical change continues to accelerate has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

We try we fail we posture we aspire we pontificate - and then we age shrink die and vanish.