Abundance may refer to:
In science and technology:
- Abundance (economics), the opposite of scarcities
- Abundance (ecology), the relative representation of a species in a community
- Abundance (programming language), a Forth-like computer programming language
- Abundance, a property of abundant numbers
- chemistry
- Abundance (chemistry), when a substance in a reaction is present in high quantities
- Abundance of the chemical elements, a measure of how common elements are
- Natural abundance, the natural prevalence of different isotopes of an element on Earth
- Abundance of elements in Earth's crust
In literature:
- Abundance (play), a 1990 stage play written by Beth Henley
- Al-Kawthar ("Abundance"), the 108th sura of the Qur'an
- Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, a 2012 book by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
See also:
- Abundant life (disambiguation)
Famous quotes containing the word abundance:
“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.”
—Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen] (1885–1962)
“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature—opposition to it, is [in?] his love of justice.... Repeal the Missouri compromise—repeal all compromises—repeal the declaration of independence—repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man’s heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 5:5.
The third of the Beatitudes, from the Sermon on the Mount. The words recall those in Proverbs 37:11, “But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.” In his Notebooks, the author Samuel Butler wrote, “I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.” (Samuel Butler’s Notebooks, p. 220, 1951)