Terry Teachout

The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck.

American Critic

Michael Gove

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

British Politician

Jared Polis

Enterprise zones have succeeded in attracting needed capital to our urban poverty centers. Businesses and investors that wouldn't otherwise give these blighted areas a second glance react to the incentives and invest.

American Politician

Karen Blixen

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Danish Author

Donald G. Mitchell

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.

American Writer

Vivian Campbell

If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!

Irish Musician

Frederick William Robertson

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

English Clergyman

Dan Gilbert

I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

American Coach

John W. Gardner

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

American Educator

Sixto Rodriguez

American Musician

Remember 'blight' often refers to severe plant diseases that can spread quickly and be hard to control.

Plant Diseases

'Blight' is commonly used in farming and gardening contexts when discussing plant health.

Agricultural Context

A blight can be sudden and unexpected, causing surprise and despair to the grower.

Unexpected Disaster

When not about plants, 'blight' is often used metaphorically to describe social issues.

Metaphorical Use

Use 'blight' to emphasize the negative impact or aesthetic harm on places or communities.

Negative Impact

'Blight' suggests a process of deterioration or decline, often one that has been ignored.

Deterioration

'Blight' as a verb highlights significant obstacles or factors that ruin chances of success.

Life Obstacles

As a verb, 'blight' carries emotional weight; it can make the problem it describes feel heavy.

Emotional Weight

When 'blight' is used related to landscapes or surroundings, it suggests visual and environmental harm.

Visual Harm

 we devoted the entire may issue to forests and the great thing about chestnut research is that it's not just about the american chestnut tree today so many of the world's trees are facing diseases like the blight and if we can figure out how to save the american chestnut which is one of the first trees

Into the Forests PIPE...

 there and they said well thank you very much for coming dr managing that was fascinating good bye that was the end of it yeah he says they didn't really want to hear it but rodrigo and some other scientists were getting pretty concerned that a catastrophic blight could wipe out agaves so

A Skeptic’s Guide to...

 we're blighted by high levels of air pollution, long commutes, congested roads and big differences in life expectancy between the richest and the poorest. So what is our act doing to make a difference? Well, first of all, it requires our public institutions to work together.

Lessons on leaving the...

 of people outside of a house and I decided to go over there and see what was going on and realized that was actually a family who were working on their house I thought that was so so interesting that here I am looking for desolation and blight and abandonment and I find life

Photographing the Real...

 which colonize the plants' roots and help them absorb water and nutrients. These fungal filaments form extensive networks that can connect separate plants, creating an underground super highway for chemical messages. When a tomato plant responds to blight

Can plants talk to each...

 why should I treat them as equals myself? Why should I pay them equal pay for doing the same kind of work? The other very serious blight that causes this problem is the excessive resort to violence, and that is increasing tremendously around the world.

Jimmy Carter: Why I...

 And it remains a blight on our national reputation, as I fear the separation of children in the last administration will be remembered. The point is that our esteem and our power is enhanced when we rescue the desperate --

A Different Understanding...

 So, in science, two false approaches blight progress. One's untestable theories. But the more important one is explanationless theories. Whenever you're told that some existing statistical trend will continue

David Deutsch: A new way...

 through art installations throughout the world, in countries of the people that I meet. Now they are lining parks and courtyards, painted on walls and even in blighted lots off the street.

What gardening taught me...

 arrived the potato blight the neighborhood started changing life was better we lived right that life had up a shade of white when they say we want