Stacey D'Erasmo

The ambition of 'Ten Thousand Saints,' Eleanor Henderson's debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. In nearly 400 pages, Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire and bit of emotional detritus.

American Novelist

Jojo Moyes

I find my best writing time is actually 6 A.M., before the detritus of the day - the fish fingers and the school uniform and dogs and bills - have had a chance to clog up my brain. I can usually get 500 words done before 7 A.M. But it is difficult, and the Internet, and social networking, are terrible timesucks.

British Journalist

Tucker Carlson

Apart from its dangers, much of Iraq isn't very interesting to look at. The landscape is flat and dun colored. The dirt just beyond the highway is littered with hunks of twisted and mangled metal, some of it the detritus of wars, some of it just unclaimed junk. The countryside looks muddy and broken.

American Journalist

Paul Sparks

The characters I've played that I like the most are people that have a lot of obstacles. They have a lot of bad things going on. They're seeking to do something good amidst all the detritus around them, and they're aware of how badly they've screwed it up. That kind of self-awareness is tragic.

American Actor

Claire Messud

Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the detritus from the tsunami washing up on the other side of the ocean, writing is what can be salvaged.

Carrie Brownstein

Only in retrospect can I find clues to my father's gayness. Sometimes the dull detritus of our pasts become glaring strands once you realize they form a pattern, a lighted path to the present.

American Musician

Rachel Nichols

I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.

American Actress

Srikumar Rao

Executives don't burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don't create the human detritus that disgruntled managers do.

Indian Educator

Imagine scattered objects after events to grasp 'detritus' in everyday use.

Visual Imagery

'Detritus' can be waste but also non-trash items left behind.

Not Always Trash

Use 'detritus' to describe leftovers from large public or private gatherings.

Event Aftermath

In nature, 'detritus' relates to dead, decomposing organic remnants.

Nature’s Leftovers

'Detritus' plays a crucial role in ecosystems as a food source for some organisms.

Ecosystem Role

Unlike pollutants, 'detritus' is natural and integral to environmental cycles.

Not Pollutants

In geology, 'detritus' refers to small bits broken from larger rocks.

Diminutive Fragments

Geologists examine 'detritus' layers to understand Earth's history.

Study of Layers

'Detritus' gives clues about rock formation processes and compositions.

Rock Formation Clues

 and expel digestive waste before dying and leaving their remains to decay. All that death sounds grim, right? But it's not. All detritus is ultimately consumed by microbes and other scavengers, so it actually forms the base of the brown food chain that supports many other organisms,

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 this toilet they resort to find toilets defecating in a plastic bag and then in the morning tactfully throwing it outside when no one is looking without a sanitation network the other networks can't fully function just as the detritus of hurricane ravaged New

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 their host’s replicative machinery to reproduce. It also protects surrounding cells from damage since some viruses spread by rupturing their host cells, which can lead to large-scale destruction, the build-up of detritus, and potentially even organ damage.

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 So clearly, whales are really important in nutrient cycling, both horizontally and vertically, through the oceans. But what's really cool is that they're also really important after they're dead. Whale carcasses are some of the largest form of detritus

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 In this process, sea cucumbers clean and oxygenate the seafloor by breaking down detritus and recycling nutrients. This creates the conditions for sea grass beds and shellfish to thrive. Sea cucumber excretions can also aid in coral formation

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 This blend of chemicals, minerals, and intergalactic particles settles out of the air onto surfaces in our homes, mixing with the detritus of each house’s occupants. Stars explode, mountains erode, and buildings, plants, and animals

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 one of the most untidy spider's webs that you will find it looks like a sort of I guess derelict gypsy colony if you like it is detritus all over the place it looks like the you know the male's clearly aren't doing anything to help

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 Symbiotic sponges and sea squirts protect their host trees from hungry woodboring crustaceans. Crabs, snails, and shrimp eat algae, mussels, barnacles, and salty mangrove detritus. These animals in turn feed fish,

The sharks that hunt in...

 foodweb they're consuming detritus and they're gleaning essential nutrients the snail is passing calcium up through the food web and supplying it to all these animals that's how important sales are

The Strange and...

 no matter where you go in the sea these days you tend to come across human detritus and when you because they