"The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore."

-- David Holmgren

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“How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?”
“I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.”
“Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position, reputation, wealth and success in business are deceptive. If we die tomorrow they will disappear tomorrow, and nothing will be left for our future. Wisdom, however, will never deceive us.”
“I don't think that the real enemy of the music industry is illegal downloading; I think the real enemy of the music industry is radio.”
“From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance?”

Source : David M. Knight, Auguste Laurent (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method”, p.204, Taylor & Francis
“I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.”
“But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.”
“One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.”

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