"I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where... we're creating the conditions for the things that we want to see happen rather than trying to force a particular set of outcomes."

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Source : "Author Toby Hemenway believes permaculture could move us beyond 'sustainability'". Interview with Heather Shayne Blakeslee, www.gridphilly.com. October 1, 2015.

Toby Hemenway

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“America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.”

Source : "Former Colorado Governor Declares For President". www.cnn.com.
“Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.”
“Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.”
“Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.”

Source : Charles Edward Merriam (1928). “A History of American Political Theories”, p.311, Transaction Publishers
“I chose the actors that I was in love with. I cannot work with people that I don't personally like a lot. They can be the best actor in the world, but if the first contact is not good, if I don't fall in love with them, then I don't want to work with them. It's impossible.”
“I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.”
“Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice”
“Life begins when we decide it's going to begin for us.”

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