Greg Peterson famous quotes

Let nature be in your yard.
-- Greg Peterson

#Yards

Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.
-- Greg Peterson

#Mother #Nature #Jobs

Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles.
-- Greg Peterson

#Simple #Creating #Urban

No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be grown! Window sill, fire escape and rooftop gardens have the same potential to provide impressive harvests as backyard gardens, greenhouses and community spaces.
-- Greg Peterson

#Garden #Thinking #Fire

I believe that virtually everyone has the ability to either grow some food at home, or to find an appropriate location to start a garden. I may sound like a kook who plants my landscape with cucumbers instead of carnations, peppers instead of petunias, and fruit trees rather than ficus, but I am convinced that wherever you go, you can grow food! Now is the time for us to join together and plant the seeds that will transform the places in which we live.
-- Greg Peterson

#Believe #Home #Garden

I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who are no longer strangers, but friends who delight in the edible rewards offered from a garden they discovered together. Imagine small strips of land between apartment buildings that have been turned into vegetable gardens, and urban orchards planted at schools and churches to grow food for our communities. The seeds of the urban farming movement already are growing within our reality.
-- Greg Peterson

#School #Garden #Reality

[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of its own. Be creative and come up with a name that inspires and makes people smile, like my friend Laura's "Wish We Had Acres," the Fairy Tale inspired "Jack's Bean Stalk" or my "Urban Farm.
-- Greg Peterson

#Pride #Names #Creating

It takes effort to promote what you do until it becomes habit.
-- Greg Peterson

#Effort #Habit

I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard if he can help it. Many mounted regiments were therefore organized, and afterwards dismounted.

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

I got this grave yard woman.

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.