"If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere."

-- Wes Jackson

#Agriculture Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Sustainability Quotes

“Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it.”

Source : Eric Partridge (2003). “You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies”, p.125, Routledge
“All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and lucid experience...Genuine integration of this point produces a profound change in the individual's response to the world. Grasping and aversion is greatly diminished, and the emotional tangles that once seemed so compelling are experienced as the tug of dream stories, and no more.”
“In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.”
“My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.”
“I've been all over the world, and to be in Milan and see guys dressed as Jake and Elwood is amazing. They really have become a part of the culture.”
“3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion).”
“No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I. And no doubt, there are also those who believe that judges are, like Joan Didion, primarily engaged in the writing of fiction. I cannot agree with either of those propositions.”
“It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.”

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