"A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth"

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Source : Verlyn Klinkenborg (2013). “More Scenes from the Rural Life”, p.109, Princeton Architectural Press

Verlyn Klinkenborg

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Agriculture Quotes

“By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.”
“The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.”
“I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them.”
“My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.”
“Iâ€™m a United States senator. Iâ€™m not an Israeli senator.”
“Make every decision as if you owned the company.”
“Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?”
“I wasn't as confident and creative in the beginning as I am now, so it was all very safe. But I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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