"Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind."

-- Hugh Hammond Bennett

#Rain Quotes #Men Quotes #Erosion Quotes

“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”

Source : Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company
“I still like weird music but there's such an overabundance that it's hard for me to stay enthusiastic about it.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.
“I love babies. I could take care of them for all the days of my life and I'd be happy. It is for sure passion No. 1.”
“The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.”

Source : Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.78, Vintage
“The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less.”
“My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.”
“Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.”
“Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.”

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